The Crucible

Question 1

adamant

Answer 1

adj. unshakable or insistent esp. in maintaining a position or opinion. The test subjects were adamant that they were playing by the rules.

Question 2

afflict

Answer 2

v. to distress so severely as to cause persistent suffering or anguish. The job of the news media is supposed to be to afflict the comfortable and
comfort the afflict ed.

Question 3

beguile

Answer 3

v. to lead by deception. She’d used her daughter’s identity to beguile the two men.

Question 4

confounded

Answer 4

adj. bewildered, confused, perplexed. Results of such are highly confounded and no conclusions can be drawn from them.

Question 5

contention

Answer 5

n. a struggling together in opposition, competition or contest. But how anthropoid primates originated has been a subject of frequent contention .

Question 6

contiguous

Answer 6

adj.  touching; in contact; in close proximity.  The astronauts climbed through a hatch from the command module into the 
  contiguous  lander.

Question 7

deference

Answer 7

n. respectful submission or yielding to the indigent opinion will, ect., of another. He responded with courtly deference , giving them his full attention.

Question 8

effrontery

Answer 8

n. shameless or impudent boldness, barefaced audacity. The naive effrontery of this book is more pitiful than ridiculous.

Question 9

formidable

Answer 9

adj. causing fear, apprehension and read in formidable opponent; intimidating; strong. But getting from interest to a viable formula is proving a formidable challenge.

Question 10

grave

Answer 10

n. an excavation made in the earth in which to bury a dead body. By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.

Question 11

incredulous

Answer 11

adj. not credulousd;disinclined or indisposed to believe. They were incredulous , but did not dare to undeceive themselves.

Question 12

malign

Answer 12

v. to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander. Their malign neglect has been with purpose.

Question 13

manifestation

Answer 13

n. a public demonstration, a stand for political effort. This is a manifestation of everything we’ve done and talked about.

Question 14

predilection

Answer 14

n. a tendency to think favorably of something in particular. The objectification was tied to a predilection for violence.

Question 15

pretense

Answer 15

n. pretending; make believe; a fake show of something. He makes no pretense to being an orator.

Question 16

prodigious

Answer 16

adj. extraordinary in size; amount, extent degree force ect. The legal costs involved in this enormous litigation could be prodigious .

Question 17

purged

Answer 17

v. to rid of whatever is impure or undisputed cleanse; purity. Hitler purged the nation of what he thought was unwanted.

Question 18

quail

Answer 18

v. to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger shrink with fear. But I neither quiver nor quail .

Question 19

rankle

Answer 19

v. to continue to cause irritation of bitter resentment with the mind. Many professors rankle at the notion that they should have to worry about it
now.

Question 20

sniveling

Answer 20

v. to weep or cry with sniffling. I was siveling the whole time during class.