Act 1 Vocabulary: The Crucible
Reading is a good way of improving your writing skills. When you read the crucible you get to expand your vocabulary. You have now learnt new words and do you thing you can get their meaning without looking them up in the dictionary? Take up the quiz and see for yourself.
- 1.The meaning of abolish:
- A.
To do away with
- B.
To keep forever
- 2.An autocrat is:
- A.
A person with no power
- B.
A person with limited power
- 3.To bemuse is to:
- A.
Confuse or to bewilder
- B.
Make someone laugh
- 4.Defamation means:
- A.
To tell the truth about others
- B.
Act of harming or ruining another's reputation
- 5.To glorify, to praise, to raise in rank means
- A.
To hold down
- B.
To exhalt
- 6.Something that is menacing, causing fear or awe means:
- A.
Heretical
- B.
Formidable
- 7.A hypocrite is
- A.
One who is insincere or deceitful
- B.
One who says things about others to get even
- 8.To make an effort to gain good favor with someone means to
- A.
Collobrate
- B.
Ingratitate
- 9.If a child is born with certain characteristic it is said to have them
- A.
Innately
- B.
Inertly
- 10.A person who has ill will or evil intentions can be classified as
- A.
Malevolence
- B.
Good spirits
- 11.Parochial means:
- A.
Having an open mind
- B.
Limited in range or scope, narrow, provincial
- 12.One who exhibits extreme or possibly blind allegiance to a group or cause
- A.
Partisan
- B.
Placid
- 13.A sectarian is
- A.
A member of a sect that is a faction with extreme beliefs
- B.
Someone who will be born 100 years from now
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