The Crucible_Act 4 Vocabulary

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues.

Directions: Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text.
1) Read the sentence. 2) Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with our prior
knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.
Part II: Determine the Meaning
3) Define each underlined word.

1. Believe me, Mr. Nurse, if Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then

nothings left to stop the whole green world from burning.
2. Cheever, ineptly reaching toward Elizabeth
3. I had my doubts, Proctor, I had my doubts, but heres
calamity, To Hale, showing the needle: You see it, sir, it is a
needle!
4. Was there murder done, perhaps, and never brought to light?
Abomination? Some secret blasphemy hat stinks to Heaven?
Think on cause, man, and let you help me discover it.
5. Proctor, moving menacingly toward her: You will tell the court
how that poppet came here and stuck the needle in.
6. Abbyll charge lechery on you, Mr. Proctor!
7. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we
always were, but naked now.