"The Crucible" Vocabulary
Act III
  1. Abundant - plentifully supplied: rich: adjective
  2. Accusation - an act of accusing: noun
  3. Affidavit - written statement made underoath: noun
  4. Agape - with wonder and amazement: adjective and adverb
  5. Anti-Christ - the great antagonist of Christ expected to spread universal evil: noun
  6. Apparition - a spectral figure: ghost: noun
  7. Augur Bit - sharp point of an augur. a tool used for boring holes: noun
  8. Befouled - made dirty: verb
  9. Compacted - solidly united or packed together: adjective
  10. Condemn - to express strong dissapproval of: denounce: verb
  11. Contemplation - to consider as possible: intend
  12. Contemptuous - scornful: adjective
  13. Contempt - bitter scorn or disdain: noun
  14. Contention - controversy: noun
  15. Dagger - a short, pointed, sharp-edged weapon used for stabbing: noun
  16. Deception - the use of deceit: noun
  17. Deposition - the act of deposing, as from office: noun
  18. Forfeit - something given up as punishment: penalty: noun
  19. Gulling - fooling: verb
  20. Harloltry - a prostitute: noun
  21. Ignorance - lacking or showing a lack of knowledge or education: noun
  22. Illusion - a mistaken perception of reality: noun
  23. Informant - one who discloses or furnishes information: noun
  24. Ipso facto - "by that very fact", "therefore" (latin)
  25. Manifest - clearly apparent: obvious: adjective
  26. Perjury - the fiving of a false or misleading testimony while under oath: noun
  27. Plaintiff - party that files a complaint in a lawsuit: noun
  28. Probity - complete honesty: integrity: noun
  29. Remorseless - without deep moral anguish and regret for past misdeeds: adjective
  30. Reputation - the general estimation of a person or thing held by the public: noun
  31. Solemn - deeply serious: grave: adjective
  32. Sophistication - having experience in the ways of the world: noun
  33. Sublime - noble: lofty: adjective
  34. Testimony - a solemn declaration or affirmation made under oath: noun
  35. Transfixed - pierced with or as if with a pointed weapon: verb
  36. Turnabout - a change and especially a reveral in direction, opinion, allegiance, or policy: noun
  37. Vengeance - the act of causing harm to another in retribution for a wrong or injury: noun Vocabulary Used
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