The Crucible Vocabulary

to make better or more tolerable

• beguile

• daft

• ameliorate

• effrontery

a tool used for boring or drilling holes

• auger

• gait

• vestry

• daft

muddled, stupefied, confused

• gaunt

• beguile

• gulling

• befuddled

deceive by guile; hoodwink

• gulling

• beguile

• theocracy

• gait

in a manner of feeling or showing no emotion

• calumny

• imperceptible

• callously

• vestry

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

• callously

• deposition

• calumny

• paradox

cling; to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly

• auger

• cleave

• probity

• faction

eager to make peace, to reconcile

• effrontery

• deference

• imperceptible

• conciliatory

mad; insane

• daft

• providence

• heathen

• indignant

respect and esteem due a superior or an elder

• dissembling

• deference

• providence

• formidable