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The Crucible
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Predilection | fondness |
| innate | natural |
| antagonistic | aggressive |
| theocracy | government dominated by religion |
| abominations | scandals |
| vindictive | spiteful |
| calumny | slander |
| arbitrate | judge |
| diametrically | completely |
| parishioners | members of a church community |
| defiled | spoiled |
| differentiation | separation |
| manifestation | a sign |
| dissembling | speaking or acting hypocritically |
| deference | respect |
| contention | argument |
| covenanted | a person who has formally pledged to uphold the laws of a religion |
| contiguous | neighboring |
| inculcation | repetition for the purpose of making others accept an idea |
| heathen | any non-Christian person |
| ingratiating | obsequious |
| junta | military rule |
| repression | oppression |
| conjured | made up |
| providence | fate |
| trepidation | fear |
| notorious | disreputable |
| iniquity | wickedness |
| scourge | plague |
| citadel | stronghold, fortress |
| ideology | philosophy |
| paradox | contradiction |
| injunctions | restriction |
| faction | group |
| demonic | devilish |
| subservient | submissive |
| prodigious | extraordinary |
| defamation | insult |
| Dionysiac | uninhibited |
| vestry | a committee elected by the members of a congregation to manage the worldly affairs of the church |
| pretense | make-believe |
| plaintiff | petitioner |
| guile | craftiness |
| daft | mad |
| revelation | disclosure |
| effrontery | nerve |
| auger | a tool for boring holes in wood |
| contentious | controversial |
| undermine | weaken |
| ipso facto | by the fact itself |
| harlot | prostitute |
| deposition | statement |
| testament | evidence |
| probity | goodness |
| lecher | a man given to excessive sexual indulgence |
| gibbet | gallows |
| prevail | triumph |
| excommunication | being cut out of membership to and fellowship with the church |
| disputation | debate |
| beguile | charm |
| sibilance | a hiss |
| adamant | stubborn |
| indictment | formal accusation |
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