Crucible Terma

Question 1

Crucible

Answer 1

An ordeal or severe trial

Question 2

Inert

Answer 2

Unable to move

Question 3

Ingratiate

Answer 3

To gain favor with someone by deliberate efforts

Question 4

Paradox

Answer 4

A statement or idea that seems self contradictory, or absurd but in reality expresses possible truth

Question 5

Dissemble

Answer 5

To conceal one’s true motives or thoughts

Question 6

Begrudge

Answer 6

To envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of others

Question 7

Formidable

Answer 7

Causing fear or apprehension

Question 8

Trepidation

Answer 8

A state of alarm

Question 9

Reckon

Answer 9

To calculate

Question 10

Partisan

Answer 10

Biased towards one group

Question 11

Titillate

Answer 11

To excite

Question 12

Pretense

Answer 12

Act that is pretend or false

Question 13

Licentious

Answer 13

Sexually unrestrained

Question 14

Condemn

Answer 14

To give someone a legal sentence

Question 15

Lofty

Answer 15

Very high

Question 16

Bewilder

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To confuse or puzzle someone

Question 17

Ameliorate

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To improve something or make it more bearable

Question 18

Indignant

Answer 18

Feeling upset about the injustice of something

Question 19

Avid

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Eager for or enthusiastic about something

Question 20

Civil

Answer 20

Polite or courteous

Question 21

Base

Answer 21

Lacking morals, dishonorable, selfish

Question 22

Deference

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Polite, respect, especially putting another person’s interest first

Question 23

Daft

Answer 23

Stupid, senseless

Question 24

Gingerly

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Doing something in a cautious way

Question 25

Forbidding

Answer 25

Unfriendly, hostile

Question 26

Contentious

Answer 26

Likely to create strife

Question 27

Probity

Answer 27

Honesty

Question 28

Prodigious

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Extraordinary in size

Question 29

Reproach

Answer 29

To find fault with

Question 30

Effrontery

Answer 30

Bold behavior that is insulting

Question 31

Qualm

Answer 31

Uneasy feeling about the rightness of an action

Question 32

Guile

Answer 32

Treacherous, cunning

Question 33

Incredulous

Answer 33

Skeptical

Question 34

Lechery

Answer 34

Lustful behavior

Question 35

Ipso facto

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By the very fact

Question 36

Gaunt

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Extremely thin and boney

Question 37

Embodiment

Answer 37

A person, being, or tangible thing that expresses an abstract idea

Question 38

Flounder

Answer 38

Struggle with, stumbling

Question 39

Reprieve

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A rest from impending punishment

Question 40

Adamant

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Stubbornly unyielding in attitude

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Cleave

Answer 41

Stick closely to

Question 42

Quail

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To lose heart

Question 43

Calamity

Answer 43

Great misfortune or disaster

Question 44

Conciliatory

Answer 44

Attempting to reconcile with someone

Question 45

Purge

Answer 45

To get rid of whatever is impure or undesirable

Question 46

Frantic

Answer 46

Desperate or wild with excitement