Crucible Vocabulary Act 1 Definitions

Define crucible

• testing circumstances that cause people to change
• to gain favor with someone by deliberate efforts
• a state of alarm, dread, or apprehension
• to settle accounts, as with a person

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Define inert

• a heat-resist container
• to count
• causing fear
• unable to move or act; sluggish in action or motion

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Define ingratiate

• to count, compute, or calculate
• to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of someone else
• to gain favor with someone by deliberate efforts
• to combine or put together

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Define paradox

• awesome strength or power
• to excite or arouse agreeably
• lawless or immoral
• a statement or idea that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Define dissemble

• to conceal one's true motives or thoughts often by giving a fasle or misleading appearance
• testing circumstances that cause people to change
• to put together
• a state of alarm or dread

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Define begrudge

• an ordeal or severe trail
• a bottom of a furnace
• to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of someone else
• to show good fortune towards others

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Define formidable

• causing fear or apprehension; discouraging because of strength, power, size, or strength
• a heat-resistant container in which ores, metals, and impurities are melted
• a state of alarm, dread, or apprehension
• to settle accounts, as with a person

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Define trepidation

• sluggish in action or motion
• causing fear or apprehension
• a state of alarm, dread, or apprehension
• to excite

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Define reckon

• to count, compute, or calculate
• testing circumstances that cause people to change
• to conceals one's true motives or thoughts often by giving
• happy or excited about the future

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Define partisan

• to excite
• a biased, even blind supporter of a person, group, or cause, often not willing to listen to other people's opinions
• mute, unable to speak
• to barter or exchange with

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4