The Crucible

Question 1

Adamant

Answer 1

Adjective. But the test subjects were adamant that they were playing by the rules. Unshakable or immovable.

Question 2

Afflict

Answer 2

Verb. To distress so severly as to cause persistant suffering or anguish.

Question 3

Beguile

Answer 3

To lead by deception.

Question 4

Confounded

Answer 4

Confused perplexed.

Question 5

Contention

Answer 5

An act or intsance of contending.

Question 6

Contiguous

Answer 6

Being in actual contact.

Question 7

Deference

Answer 7

respect and steem due. A superior or an elder.

Question 8

Effrontery

Answer 8

Shamelees Boldness.

Question 9

Formidable

Answer 9

Causing fear, dread, or apprehension.

Question 10

Grave

Answer 10

An excabation for burial of a body.

Question 11

Incredulous

Answer 11

Unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true.

Question 12

Malign

Answer 12

Evil in nature, influence, or effect.

Question 13

Manifestation

Answer 13

The act, process, or an instance of manifesting.

Question 14

Prediction

Answer 14

An established prefrence for something.

Question 15

Pretense

Answer 15

A claimed made or implied.

Question 16

Prodigious

Answer 16

Exciting statement or wonder.

Question 17

Purged

Answer 17

An act or insance of purging.

Question 18

Quail

Answer 18

An old world migratory game bird.

Question 19

Rankle

Answer 19

To cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness.

Question 20

Sniveling

Answer 20

To cry or run with snuffling.