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