The Crucible: Vocabulary Review

inquiry

• escape or avoid
• refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind
• a cancellation or postponement of a punishment
• an act of asking for information

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

reprieve

• escape or avoid
• refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind
• a cancellation or postponement of a punishment
• an act of asking for information

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

adamant

• escape or avoid
• refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind
• a cancellation or postponement of a punishment
• an act of asking for information

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

evade

• escape or avoid
• refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind
• a cancellation or postponement of a punishment
• an act of asking for information

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

falter

• open dislike for someone
• unable to be noticed or felt by the senses
• unwilling or unable to believe something
• start to lose strength or momentum

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

incredulous

• open dislike for someone
• unable to be noticed or felt by the senses
• unwilling or unable to believe something
• start to lose strength or momentum

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

imperceptible

• open dislike for someone
• unable to be noticed or felt by the senses
• unwilling or unable to believe something
• start to lose strength or momentum

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

contempt

• open dislike for someone
• unable to be noticed or felt by the senses
• unwilling or unable to believe something
• start to lose strength or momentum

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

calamity

• the expression of very strong disapproval
• feeling or showing anger at something considered unfair or unjust
• to feel envious or unhappy because someone has something that you think they do not deserve
• a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting suffering

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

begrudge

• the expression of very strong disapproval
• feeling or showing anger at something considered unfair or unjust
• to feel envious or unhappy because someone has something that you think they do not deserve
• a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting suffering

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4