The Crucible Vocabulary One

Question 0

Ameliorate

Answer 0

To make become better to improve

Question 1

Abrogate

Answer 1

To abolish do away with

Question 2

Augur

Answer 2

To foretell events by omens

Fortuneteller

Question 3

Autocratic

Answer 3

Unlimited power to an individual

Question 4

Conciliatory

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To gain by pleasing acts

Question 5

Contentious

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Tending to argument strife

quarrelsome

Question 6

Dogmatically

Answer 6

Strongly expressing opinions as if they are facts

stubbornly sticking to it they think

Question 7

Formidable

Answer 7

Causing fear dread apprehension or awe

Question 8

Gaunt

Answer 8

Sickly thin

Question 9

Indigenously

Answer 9

Natural to specific place

Question 10

Ineptly

Answer 10

Lacking inability

Question 11

Inert

Answer 11

Very slow to move or act

motion

Question 12

Ingratiating

Answer 12

Deliberately meant to gain favor

Question 13

Licentious

Answer 13

Lacking moral discipline or sexual restraint

Question 14

Malevolence

Answer 14

Ill willed mean

Question 15

Malign

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To speak of someone in a nasty way

Question 16

Orthodox

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Sticking to specific set of accepted ideas

Question 17

Pallor

Answer 17

Sickly pale

Question 18

Paradox

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Seeming contradictory with an underlying truth

Question 19

Predilection

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A natural tendency

Question 20

Propriety

Answer 20

Proper behavior

Question 21

Rescinded

Answer 21

To take back or to take away

Question 22

Sublime

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Exalted

Question 23

Trepidation

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Fear nervousness

Question 24

Wily

Answer 24

Clever cunning