Crucible Vocabulary

A manner or thinking of an individual, group, culture

• Theocracy

• ideology

• faction

• pretense

a seemingly contradictory statement that is perhaps true

• Paradox

• dissembling

• goody

• sniveling

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

• ideology

• abominations

• Theocracy

• formidable

concealing the facts

• dissembling

• notorious

• subservient

• propriety

socially acceptable behavior and speech

• propriety

• paradox

• pretense

• providence

an uncivilized or irreligious person; pagan

• heathen

• goody

• demonic

• abyss

traded; had dealings or associations conjured: summoned a devil or spirit by invocation or incantation

• trafficked

• harlot

• adultery

• lechery

group; secret faction; clique 

• faction

• pod

• partisans

• canny

sources of utter disgust or intense dislike; hateful, disgusting actions

• abominations

• calumny

• blink

• junctures

used as a title preceding a surname— usually a married woman of lowly station 

• goody

• harlot

• heathen

• exudes