The Crucible Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following

• system of ideas which form a policy

• ideology

• system of religious beliefs

• faction

• small, dissenting group among a larger

• injunction

• authoritative warning or order

• creed

• attempt to make a thing false seem true

• pretense

Match the following

• to act or move slowly

• persecuted

• subject to hostile treatment due to diff

• somber

• to conceal one's true motives

• dallied

• gloomy

• dissembling

• to flatter people to get favors

• ingratiating

Match the following

• punishment inflicted for injury/wrong

• paradox

• willfully telling a lie in court

• charity

• a strong supporter of a cause

• vengeance

• the voluntary giving of help or money

• perjury

• absurd statement that is actually true

• partisan

Match the following

• to start to lose momentum

• indignant

• being large, powerful, intense

• falter

• showing anger at unfair treatment

• formidable

• refusing to change one's mind

• prodigious

• impressively great in size or extent

• adamant

Match the following

• protective care of God

• contention

• heated disagreement

• defamation

• the act of giving sworn evidence

• heathen

• the action of damaging one's reputation

• providence

• person not belonging to common religions

• deposition

Match the following

• to obey others unquestioningly

• subservient

• paying no attention to

• calumny

• making false statements to hurt someone

• vindictive

• to reach a judgement without bias

• arbitrate

• showing a strong desire for revenge

• disregard

Match the following

• system of government and religion joined

• autocratic

• done openly and without shame

• begrudge

• relating to a ruler with absolute power

• blatant

• to do resentfully or reluctantly

• manifestation

• action that shows a theory or idea

• theocracy

Match the following

• impossible to solve

• heathen

• realting to a church

• somber

• person not part of widely-held religion

• parochial

• dark or dull in color or tone

• insoluble

• a preference for something

• predilection

Match the following

• a preference for something

• heathen

• dark or dull in color or tone

• parochial

• person not part of widely-held religion

• predilection

• realting to a church

• insoluble

• impossible to solve

• somber