The Crucible Act II Vocabulary Quiz

(v) to resent another's success; to envy

• begrudge

• blasphemy

• crone

• gingerly

(n) irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity

• tainted

• blasphemy

• theology

• pallor

(n) an ugly evil-looking old woman

• poppet

• daft

• crone

• pallor

(adv.) very carefully; cautiously

• theology

• wily

• gingerly

• flailing

(n) an extreme or unnatural paleness

• wily

• lechery

• daft

• pallor

(v) contaminated; corrupted

• tainted

• gingerly

• blasphemy

• begrudge

(n) study of religion and religious ideas

• flailing

• theology

• crone

• blasphemy

(n) small doll

• wily

• crone

• poppet

• pallor

(adj) sly, shrewd, cunning

• evasive

• suspicion

• wily

• quail

(v) to wave or swing vigorously

• quail

• tainted

• begrudge

• flailing