crucible act 3 and 4
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daviddunham on February 21, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 penitence | sorrow for sins or faults |
| agape | love, feast |
| beguile | to lead by deception |
| purged | to clear of guilt |
| gaunt | very thin and angular |
| floundering | to struggle to move |
| sibilence | a siblent quality or sound |
| singering | to burn lightly |
| cleave | to divide |
| strongbox | a strongly made chest |
| indicement | an expression of strong dissaproval |
| resolution | the act or process of resolving |
| reprieve | to give relief |
| factionalism | a party or group |
| rescinded | to take away |
| excommunication | exclusion from fellowship in a group |
| stench | stink |
| conciliatory | tending to conciliate |
| adamant | to hard to cut |
| remorse | a gnawing distress from past wrongs |
| imperceptible | not percebtible by a sense or by the mind |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or dissaproval |
| confounded | confused or perplexed |
| immaculate | having no stain or blemish, pure |
| forefit | to give up, surrender |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow |
| deposition | an act of removing from a position |
| qualm | a sudden attack of illness |
| guile | decietful, obsolete |
| manifest | provide evidence for |
| affidavit | a sworn written statement |
| undermine | hollow out as if making a cave or opening |
| contentious | involving or likely to cause controversy |
| revelation | an enlightening or astonishing disclosure |
| divine | being or having the nature of a god |
| plaintiff | a person who brings an action in a court of law |
| anteroom | a lobby or waiting room |
| testament | a profession of belief |
| heartened | encouraged |
| statutes | law enacted by a state or federal legislature |
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