THE CRUCIBLE ACT III & IV VOCABULARY

Question 1

Auger

Answer 1

n. a tool for boring holes

Question 2

Denounce

Answer 2

v. to accuse formally

Question 3

Effrontery

Answer 3

n. brashness; shamelessness

Question 4

Forbidding

Answer 4

adj. having a menacing appearance

Question 5

Gait

Answer 5

n. the speed of proceeding

Question 6

Immaculate

Answer 6

adj. free from error

Question 7

Imperceptible

Answer 7

adj. barely noticeable

Question 8

Inaudibly

Answer 8

adv. not capable of being heard

Question 9

Probity

Answer 9

n. a complete honesty; integrity

Question 10

Prodigious

Answer 10

adj. enormous

Question 11

Qualm

Answer 11

n. a doubt

Question 12

Remoreless

Answer 12

adj. having no mercy or compassion

Question 13

Slovenly

Answer 13

adj. untidy

Question 14

Sublime

Answer 14

adj. supreme

Question 15

Transfix

Answer 15

v. to paralyze with horror or shock

Question 16

Undermine

Answer 16

v. to weaken or damage

Question 17

Unintelligible

Answer 17

adj. not able to be understood

Question 18

Adamant

Answer 18

adj. not responding to pleas

Question 19

Beguile

Answer 19

v. to deceive

Question 20

Conciliatory

Answer 20

adj. trying to overcome diagreement

Question 21

Disputation

Answer 21

n. an argument

Question 22

Flail

Answer 22

v. to shake about wildly

Question 23

Gaunt

Answer 23

adj. extremely pale

Question 24

Gibbet

Answer 24

n. a gallows

Question 25

Penitence

Answer 25

n. the remorse of sorrow for one’s sin

Question 26

Purge

Answer 26

v. to cleanse of sin

Question 27

Quavering

Answer 27

adj. trembling

Question 28

Sibilance

Answer 28

n. a hissing sound

Question 29

Contentious

Answer 29

adj. argumentative; inclined to quarrel