Crucible vocabulary

a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture

• naught

• dwindle

• ideology

• marvel

government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by church officials who are regarded as divinely guided

• theocracy

• providence

• ideology

• sidles

steadily lessening

• providence

• pretense

• canny

• dwindle

disposed to seek revenge

• abyss

• pretense

• vindictive

• prodigious

to determine the outcome of a dispute

• vindictive

• arbitrate

• notorious

• smirched

moves or turns sideways in a furtive manner

• junctures

• partisans

• naught

• sidles

suffer ill health

• partisans

• dissembling

• ail

• arbitrate

supporting with evidence or authority

• corroborating

• dissembling

• trepidation

• marvel

the act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to damage another's reputation

• intimations

• naught

• trepidation

• calumny

motionless; inactive

• smirched

• inert

• canny

• dissembling