The Crucible Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following

• small, dissenting group among a larger

• creed

• authoritative warning or order

• faction

• system of ideas which form a policy

• pretense

• system of religious beliefs

• ideology

• attempt to make a thing false seem true

• injunction

Match the following

• subject to hostile treatment due to diff

• persecuted

• to act or move slowly

• somber

• to flatter people to get favors

• dallied

• gloomy

• dissembling

• to conceal one's true motives

• ingratiating

Match the following

• punishment inflicted for injury/wrong

• perjury

• a strong supporter of a cause

• paradox

• willfully telling a lie in court

• partisan

• absurd statement that is actually true

• vengeance

• the voluntary giving of help or money

• charity

Match the following

• showing anger at unfair treatment

• prodigious

• refusing to change one's mind

• indignant

• being large, powerful, intense

• adamant

• to start to lose momentum

• formidable

• impressively great in size or extent

• falter

Match the following

• heated disagreement

• contention

• the action of damaging one's reputation

• deposition

• person not belonging to common religions

• heathen

• protective care of God

• providence

• the act of giving sworn evidence

• defamation

Match the following

• making false statements to hurt someone

• arbitrate

• paying no attention to

• subservient

• to obey others unquestioningly

• calumny

• showing a strong desire for revenge

• disregard

• to reach a judgement without bias

• vindictive

Match the following

• system of government and religion joined

• begrudge

• relating to a ruler with absolute power

• autocratic

• to do resentfully or reluctantly

• theocracy

• action that shows a theory or idea

• blatant

• done openly and without shame

• manifestation

Match the following

• realting to a church

• predilection

• a preference for something

• insoluble

• dark or dull in color or tone

• heathen

• person not part of widely-held religion

• somber

• impossible to solve

• parochial

Match the following

• realting to a church

• heathen

• a preference for something

• somber

• impossible to solve

• insoluble

• person not part of widely-held religion

• predilection

• dark or dull in color or tone

• parochial