The Crucible Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following

• small, dissenting group among a larger

• pretense

• system of religious beliefs

• creed

• authoritative warning or order

• injunction

• attempt to make a thing false seem true

• faction

• system of ideas which form a policy

• ideology

Match the following

• to flatter people to get favors

• dissembling

• to conceal one's true motives

• persecuted

• gloomy

• dallied

• subject to hostile treatment due to diff

• ingratiating

• to act or move slowly

• somber

Match the following

• a strong supporter of a cause

• perjury

• absurd statement that is actually true

• vengeance

• the voluntary giving of help or money

• charity

• punishment inflicted for injury/wrong

• paradox

• willfully telling a lie in court

• partisan

Match the following

• to start to lose momentum

• adamant

• being large, powerful, intense

• indignant

• showing anger at unfair treatment

• prodigious

• impressively great in size or extent

• formidable

• refusing to change one's mind

• falter

Match the following

• the action of damaging one's reputation

• defamation

• heated disagreement

• deposition

• person not belonging to common religions

• contention

• protective care of God

• providence

• the act of giving sworn evidence

• heathen

Match the following

• making false statements to hurt someone

• disregard

• paying no attention to

• calumny

• to reach a judgement without bias

• vindictive

• showing a strong desire for revenge

• subservient

• to obey others unquestioningly

• arbitrate

Match the following

• action that shows a theory or idea

• theocracy

• system of government and religion joined

• manifestation

• relating to a ruler with absolute power

• autocratic

• done openly and without shame

• blatant

• to do resentfully or reluctantly

• begrudge

Match the following

• person not part of widely-held religion

• insoluble

• impossible to solve

• somber

• a preference for something

• heathen

• realting to a church

• parochial

• dark or dull in color or tone

• predilection

Match the following

• a preference for something

• parochial

• person not part of widely-held religion

• insoluble

• realting to a church

• heathen

• dark or dull in color or tone

• somber

• impossible to solve

• predilection