Crucible: Act I Vocabulary

Word | Meaning | Sentence using one example word | The Crucible: Intro + Act I Vocabulary Savor | appetizing | The food critics keeps the food in their mouth for a period amount of time to savor all the flavor from it. | Dogmatically | Strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner | He dogmatically responded to his classmate, which caused him to be sent to the principal’s office. | Indigenous | Native to a certain area | Lewis and Clark needed Sacagawea’s help because she was indigenous to the land west of America. | Orthodox | Conforming to established standards, conventional | Religions are built because of the orthodox views of many people. | Heretics | Contrary to church doctrine or accepted beliefs or standards | The heretics
| Sect | group that has separated from an established church | The sect moved to a new colony because of religious persecution. | Innate | Existing from birth, inborn | His innate artistic talents allowed him to gain a scholarship. | Parochial | Limited in range or scope, narrow, provincial | There was traffic because of the parochial roads. | Predilection | preference | Hannah has never has a boyfriend because of her predilection of men. | Ingratiating | To make an effort to gain good favor with someone | After an argument, I tried ingratiating with Bryan so we can be in good terms. | Junta | A group of people who join in running a gov’t | The junta tried to set up a new government in a country that was once an aristocratic country. | Autocratic | A person with unlimited influence and authority | Many countries in Europe are autocratic. | Paradox | Something that appears false or contradictory but it is actually correct | His statement about the sun and the moon is a paradox. | Dissembling | To disguise or to pretend | The boy was dissembling that he was sick so he can get out of class.
| The gentleman’s deference personality caused many young women to be attracted to him. | Vindictive | Revenge, spiteful | His vindictive ways alienated him from many people. | Abyss | Bottomless hole, a vast expanse or depth | I had a dream that I was falling into an abyss. | Corroborating | confirming | My job as a volunteer in the office was corroborating all the papers that was given to me. | Formidable | Menacing, causing fear or awe | The man had a formidable appearance that made many people walk at a very far distance from him. | Trepidation | Fear, trembling agitation | His trepidation of going on the roller coaster caused him to cry. | Hypocrisy | One who is insincere or deceiving | Her hypocrisy was the reason why she has no friends. | Partisan | One who exhibits extreme or possible blind allegiance to a group or a cause | The partisan’s vindictive actions caused the group’s downfall. | Prodigious | Extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree, great in size, enormous | Her closet was prodigious; it was the size of 3 rooms. | Defamation | Act of harming or ruining another’s reputation | Many presidents go to many lengths for the defamation of their opponent.