The Crucible Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following

• system of ideas which form a policy

• injunction

• authoritative warning or order

• faction

• small, dissenting group among a larger

• pretense

• attempt to make a thing false seem true

• ideology

• system of religious beliefs

• creed

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• to conceal one's true motives

• persecuted

• to act or move slowly

• ingratiating

• to flatter people to get favors

• dissembling

• gloomy

• somber

• subject to hostile treatment due to diff

• dallied

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• the voluntary giving of help or money

• charity

• absurd statement that is actually true

• perjury

• willfully telling a lie in court

• partisan

• a strong supporter of a cause

• vengeance

• punishment inflicted for injury/wrong

• paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Match the following

• to start to lose momentum

• adamant

• showing anger at unfair treatment

• formidable

• refusing to change one's mind

• indignant

• being large, powerful, intense

• falter

• impressively great in size or extent

• prodigious

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• protective care of God

• heathen

• the action of damaging one's reputation

• contention

• person not belonging to common religions

• deposition

• the act of giving sworn evidence

• defamation

• heated disagreement

• providence

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• to obey others unquestioningly

• subservient

• showing a strong desire for revenge

• arbitrate

• paying no attention to

• calumny

• to reach a judgement without bias

• vindictive

• making false statements to hurt someone

• disregard

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• to do resentfully or reluctantly

• theocracy

• done openly and without shame

• begrudge

• action that shows a theory or idea

• manifestation

• relating to a ruler with absolute power

• blatant

• system of government and religion joined

• autocratic

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Match the following

• dark or dull in color or tone

• parochial

• a preference for something

• insoluble

• person not part of widely-held religion

• heathen

• realting to a church

• predilection

• impossible to solve

• somber

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• person not part of widely-held religion

• insoluble

• a preference for something

• parochial

• dark or dull in color or tone

• somber

• impossible to solve

• predilection

• realting to a church

• heathen

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4