Crucible Vocabulary, Act 1

Pretense

• To be anxious

• To determine the tense of a verb

• To deceive, a deception

• To sleep in a tent

Prodigious

• To return home

• Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.

• To have left home for a long time.

• Small or insignificant

Vindictive

• To show great sadness

• To want to show kindness

• To speak with anger

• Having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge

Deference

• To defeat a person

• To look up information

• To show disrespect, especially to an older person

• To respect someon

Manifest

• To appear, to make an appearance

• A list of materials

• To hide or make difficult to see

• A type of festival

Perverse

• Twisted and wrong

• To be agreeable

• To do what is right

• To persevere - continue to do something until you are done.

Corroborate

• To work together, as a team

• To be wrong

• To work indpendently

• To confirm, to verify

Contention

• To confirm

• To be aware of

• An argument

• To work together with someone

Defamation

• To lie about someone

• To make famous

• To help a person's reputation

• To hide information about someone

Blatant

• To create

• To hide information

• To be very obvious

• To be silent