Notes for Vocabulary Test A The Crucible Notes for Vocabulary Test A
To evade Avoid
Licentious Morally lax
Anarchy Chaos; lawlessness
Defamation Slander
Fathom Understand
Prodigious Enormous; noteworthy
Titillated Excited; intrigued
inert motionless
subservient Submissive
Very grave; extremely serious Formidable Very grave; extremely serious
Intimations Hints; premonitions
Associated with the devil or with black magic; satanic demonic Associated with the devil or with black magic; satanic
Naught Nothing
Deference Great respect
Whining; continually complaining Sniveling Whining; continually complaining
Nonsense; incomprehensible mumbling Gibberish Nonsense; incomprehensible mumbling
Clique; secret group or party Faction Clique; secret group or party
Shivering; shaking; quivering with fear Quaking Shivering; shaking; quivering with fear
pallor paleness
Probity Honesty; integrity
Presently Soon
Unfeelingly; insensitively Callously Unfeelingly; insensitively
gaunt Haggard; thin; drawn
Gibbet Scaffold; gallows
Tantalized Teasingly fascinated