cunning, deceit

unblemished

without sense or reason

not open; sly

purged

Deposition = a sworn, written statement for the court of law

An indictment is an official postponement of a sentence

the act of repaying an injury

adamant

act of taking time to think of something

reprieve

John is __________________ that Elizabeth cannot tell a lie and stresses to the court that she is entirely honest.

When the ________________ were read and the people were taken to jail, many of the citizens were outraged.

The girls use ____________ to trick the officials into believing that they are bewitched by others in court.

Parris offers Proctor cider as a _________________ act of trying to be nice to him in an effort to get Proctor to confess to witchcraft.

As an act of _______________ someone threw a dagger at Parris's door

Hale is disturbed at the number of accused and insists that Danforth accept only "proof so __________________ no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it."

Danforth refuses to accept Mary Warren's ________________ when Proctor first presents it to him as evidence that the girls are lying.

Elizabeth is given a ________________ from execution because it is proven that she is pregnant and they will not harm the unborn child.