The Crucible Act 4

Match the following:

• boundless

• intended to placate, pacify, or appease

• gaunt

• seemingly limitless in amount, number, degree or extent

• conciliatory

• held in check with difficulty

• suppressed

• consisting of or causing a decisive moment

• climactic

• very thin, especially from disease, cold or hunger

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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:

• reprieve

• a formal debate

• gibbet

• action taken in return for an injury or offense

• excommunication

• an instrument for public execution

• disputation

• cutting a person off from a religious society

• retaliation

• a warrant granting postponement

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:

• belie

• to thrash about

• cleave

• to represent falsely

• flounder

• to use persuasion succesfully

• prevail

• to have difficulties; behave awkwardly

• flail

• to stick or hold together and resist separation

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:

• sibilant

• a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)

• indictment

• a formal document charging a person with some offense

• spite

• skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort

• efficiency

• a concrete representation of an otherwise cloudy concept

• embodiment

• feeling a need to see others suffer

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

Which word or words is/are an adjective(s)?

• adamant

• stony

• cleave

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which word or words is/are verb(s)?

• tantalize

• singe

• purge

• rescind

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which word can be both a verb and a noun?

• penitence

• scaffold

• penitence

• salvation

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Use the word beneficiary correctly in a sentence that shows you understand the meaning. Proper sentence fluency, grammar, capitalization and punctuation matters.

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