crucible vocabulary
Terms
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- existing naturally since birth
- innate
- fearful anxiety
- trepidation
- false and malicious statement to hurt someone's reputations; slander
- calumny or defamation
- guidance or care of God
- providence
- supporting or confirming
- corroborating
- hints
- intimations
- dangerous or threatening
- formidable
- discreet
- subtle
- point of argument
- contention
- something of great size or power is...
- prodigious
- doll
- poppet
- excessive indulgence in sexual desires
- lechery
- disguising or feigning
- dissembling
- excited
- titillated
- courteous regard or respect
- deference
- lack of color; paleness
- pallor
- improve
- ameliorate
- study of religion
- theology
- understand thoroughly
- fathom
- accusation
- indictment
- something hated
- abomination
- characterized by expressing lust
- lascivious
- to make certain or definite
- ascertain
- something hardly believable, seemingly self-contradictory
- paradox
- severe test, figuratively; small container, literally
- crucible
- predilection
- preconceived liking
- citadel
- fortified place; stronghold
- to bring oneself into another's favor
- ingratiate
- vindictive
- vengeful
- quarrelsome, argumentative
- contentious
- perfectly clean, pure
- immaculate
- testimony made under oath but not in open court
- deposition
- audacity or boldness
- effrontery
- calmly
- placidly
- noble, exalted, awesome
- sublime
- uneasiness
- qualm
- willfull telling of a lie under oath
- perjury
- excessively thin and bony
- gaunt
- unalarmed, not upset or disturbed
- unperturbed
- too slight to be perceived
- imperceptible
- gallows where bodies were hung
- gibbet
- exclusion from society or church
- excommunication
- inflexible, unbending
- adamant
- weak, unstable
- faltering
- skeptically, doubtfully
- incredulously
- lacking pity, apathetically, unfeeling
- callously
- crazy, insane
- daft
- repulsive, evil
- vile
- open in surprise, awe, or wonder
- agape
- postponement of punishment
- reprieve
- state of regret
- penitence
- cleanse of impurities
- purged
- deceive
- beguile