Arthur Miller’s, “The Crucible” Vocabulary Act 4

Multiple Choice

Inflexible, immovable, obstinate

• placid

• formidible

• incredulous

• adamant

Multiple Choice

Despite numerous attempts to convince him otherwise, he remained ________________ in his decision to pursue a career in art.

• adamant
• animosity
• imploring
• boding

Multiple Choice

This was considered to be one of the worst fates a member of the Catholic church during medieval times

• whipping

• excommunication

• jailing

Multiple Choice

a severe penalty that brings exclusion from participation in the Church's sacramental life

• excommunication

• Christendom

• simony

• Inquisition

Multiple Choice

Which word MOST NEARLY matches the definition:

(v.) To move or act clumsily and in confusion; To have great difficulty with something

• flounder

• stifle

• quibble

• parch

Multiple Choice

Which of the following word defines the word FLOUNDER as it is used in the sentence below?

The boy floundered about in the ocean as he had gone too far out into the deep water.

• a large, flat fish

• very weak

• flop around

• body of a ship

Multiple Choice

If someone is GAUNT, they could be....

• happy

• confused

• angry

• sick

Multiple Choice

very thin and bony with hollow eyes and a starved look

• descendants

• gaunt

• spacious

• hypocrite

Match

Match each picture with the correct word:

Adamant

Excommunication

Flounder

Gaunt

• Adamant

• Excommunication

• Flounder

• Gaunt

Multiple Choice

a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime

• redress

• defendant

• felony

• indictment

Multiple Choice

When the ________________ were read and the people were taken to jail, many of the citizens were outraged.

• indictments

• reprieves

• depositions

Multiple Choice

Choose the word that correctly matches the definition: 
To be pardoned, given a break

• reprieve 
• aptitude 
• petulant 
• meticulously 

Multiple Choice

She gained ________from her arduous work when Jamal come as a proxy for her.

• rectify

• reprieve

• revile

• disentangle

Multiple Choice

to remove

• rescind

• centrifugal

• brandish

• cleave

Multiple Choice

His scholarship was ______ because they found out he cheated.

• tempered

• pliable

• rescinded

• objective

Multiple Choice

(v.) to wash away impurities, clean up

• premonition

• pseudonym

• purge

• rehabilitate

Multiple Choice

After the fire, they had to _____ their house and clothing of the smell.

• saunter

• befoul

• succulent

• purge

Match

Match each picture with the correct word:

• Time to clean!

Reprieve

Rescind

Purge

Indictment

• Reprieve

• Rescind

• Purge

• Indictment