WorksheetsThe Crucible Vocabulary Act 1 Quiz
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Define the word: Predilection
A preference or special liking for something
A strong dislike for something
An act of deception
A formal agreement
Define the word: Ingratiating
Intended to gain approval or favor
Deceptive or misleading
Famous for a bad quality
Avoiding or escaping
Define the word: Dissembling
Concealing one's true motives or feelings
A false statement meant to harm someone's reputation
A formal agreement
A preference or special liking for something
Define the word: Calumny
A false statement meant to harm someone's reputation
Avoiding or escaping
Intended to gain approval or favor
A strong dislike for something
Define the word: Compact
A formal agreement
A preference or special liking for something
Concealing one's true motives or feelings
Famous for a bad quality
Define the word: Notorious
Famous for a bad quality
Avoiding or escaping
A false statement meant to harm someone's reputation
Intended to gain approval or favor
Define the word: Evade
Avoiding or escaping
Concealing one's true motives or feelings
A formal agreement
A preference or special liking for something
Define the word: Prodigious
Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree
A false statement meant to harm someone's reputation
Avoiding or escaping
Famous for a bad quality
Define the word: Defamation
A false statement meant to harm someone's reputation
Avoiding or escaping
Concealing one's true motives or feelings
A formal agreement
Complete the sentence: Reverend Hale would not allow Abigail to (a) his questioning about what happened in the forest.
Complete the sentence: Tituba, the Parris family slave, was accused of (a) with the devil once the girls started to blame her for helping them conjure spirits in the forest.
Complete the sentence: Some families in the Salem village had a stronger (a) for believing in the existence than others before the situation with the girls’ “illness” even started.
Complete the sentence: Due to the girls’ (a) behavior after being discovered dancing the forest, their families were forced to call in an expert in the demonic arts.
Complete the sentence: Abigail initially has an (a) personality, which causes John Proctor become involved with her.
Complete the sentence: Puritans are (a) for placing too harsh of judgment on anyone who they believe to be a sinner.
Complete the sentence: Abigail defended herself vehemently against the supposed (a) being spread against her reputation in the village.
Complete the sentence: Abigail has a strong ability for (a) to the point that many of the adults in the town would believe her over what they even knew to be logically possible or true.
Complete the sentence: It didn’t take very long for the girls to begin their (a) of other villagers in order to remove the guilt from themselves.
Complete the sentence: It is hard to (a) the punishment of sin in a Puritan community.
