The Crucible Vocabulary

untidy, messy, dirty

• abomination

• slovenly

• defamation

• unintelligible

to deceive, to mislead, to persuade with charm

• vindictive

• effrontery

• beguile

• abominable

impossible to understand

• unintelligible

• gulling

• afflict

• probity

to trouble or attack, causing physical or mental suffering

• effrontery

• gulling

• transfixed

• afflict

disbelieving, skeptical

• gulling

• incredulous

• transfixed

• agape

deceiving; to fool

• conjure

• unintelligible

• gulling

• afflict

so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; unnatural or abnormal

• deference

• agape

• incredulous

• prodigious

an abusive attack on a person's character or good name

• defamation

• vindictive

• effrontery

• parish

wide open, especially with surprise or wonder

• agape

• prodigious

• afflict

• unintelligible

disrespectful and insulting boldness

• gulling

• afflict

• beguile

• effrontery