The Crucible Vocab List 2 Flashcards
Deliberating
Engage in long and careful conversation
Evasive
Attempting to escape by trickery or cleverness
Falter
To hesitate
Warrant
Specific type of authorization
Plead
To ask for, beg
Strides
To walk with long, decisive steps
Indictment
Formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
Remorseless
Without pity
Deposition
A formal statement under oath; testimony
Revelation
Surprising and unknown fact; act of making known
Manifest
A list; to make clear or evident
Conceal
To hide
Contemp
Disobedience to an authority; disdain/scorn
Incredulously
Showing disbelief
Denounce
Judge in a disapproving way
Gaunt
Lean/skinny/gloomy
Prevail
To succeed
Puritan
Strict in regards to morality; restrictive in engaging in pleasure
Indignant
Feeling or showing anger or annoying at what’s unfair