The Crucible Vocabulary Act 1 ANSWERS
Define the following words:
1. Predilecon – preexisng preference
2. Ingraang – charming; flaering
3. Dissembling – lying, concealing ones intenons
4. Calumny – false accusaon; slander
5. Compact – make an agreement; enter into a contract
6. Notorious – widely and unfavorably known
7. Evade – avoid or escape by deceit or cleverness
8. Prodigious – abnormal, unusual
9. Defamaon - slander; the act of uering false charges or misrepresentaons maliciously
calculated to damage another's reputaon
10. Evade – to avoid, dodge, escape
Complete the following sentences using the words above:
1. Reverend Hale would not allow Abigail to evade his quesoning about what happened in
the forest.
2. Tituba, the Parris family slave, was accused of compacting with the devil once the girls
started to blame her for helping them conjure spirits in the forest.
3. Some families in the Salem village had a stronger predilection for believing in the
existence than others before the situaon with the girls’ “illness” even started.
4. Due to the girls’ prodigious behavior aer being discovered dancing the forest, their
families were forced to call in an expert in the demonic arts.
5. Abigail inially has an ingratiating personality, which causes John Proctor become
involved with her.
6. Puritans are notorious for placing too harsh of judgment on anyone who they believe to
be a sinner.
7. Abigail defended herself vehemently against the supposed calumny being spread against
her reputaon in the village.
8. Abigail has a strong ability for dissembling to the point that many of the adults in the
town would believe her over what they even knew to be logically possible or true.
9. It didn’t take very long for the girls to begin their defamation of other villagers in order
to remove the guilt from themselves.
10. It is hard to evade the punishment of sin in a Puritan community.
