The Crucible Act 4 Test
strive
I will myself _______ with him till dawn.
retaliation
If _____________ is your fear, know this--I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes.
rescinded
In solemn meeting, the congregation ___________ the excommunications--this in March 1712.
adamant
Is he yet ________? Has he struck at you again?
penitence
Is there no good ___________ but it be public?
vanity
It is pretense for me, a _______ that will not blind God nor keep my children out of the wind.
heightens
The final drumroll crashes, then ___________ violently.
stench
There is a prodigious _______ in this place.
sufficient
There is not ___________ time till dawn.
declare
What profit him to bleed? Shall the dust praise him? Shall the worms _______ his truth?
naught
Why at every execution I have seen _______ but high satisfaction in the town.
rejoice
Why, you should ________ to say it if your soul is truly purged of any love for Hell!
salvation
You will not use me! It is no part of _________ that you should use me!
singeing
You would not; if tongs of fire were __________ you you would not! It is evil. Good, then--it is evil, and I do it!
spite
______ only keeps me silent. It is hard to give a lie to dogs.
contention
___________ make him weep, sir; it were always a man that weep for ___________.
sibilance
A sound--the __________ of dragging feet on stone. They turn.
calamity
A very ape would weep at such __________! Have the devil dried up any tear of pity in you?
cleave
Beware, Goody Proctor--_______ to no faith when faith brings blood.
boundless
But Proctor snatches it up, and now a wild terror is rising in him, and a ____________ anger.
scaffold
Come, man, there is light in the sky; the town waits at the _________; I would give out this news.
conciliatory
Danforth, _____________: You misunderstand, sir; I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just.
incredulous
Danforth, inquiring, ___________: Mr. Proctor, do you think they go like saints?
harlot
Excellency, there are orphans wandering from house to house; abandoned cattle bellow on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere, and no man knows when the _______'s cry will end his life--and you wonder yet if rebellion's spoke?
stony
Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a ______ heart and sink them with it!
climactic
Hale, with a __________ desperation: Woman, before the laws of God we are as swine! We cannot read His will!
astonished
Hathorne, ____________: She have robbed you?
providence
Hathorne, with a mystical tone: God be praised! It is a __________! He rushes out the door, and his voice is heard calling down the corridor: He will confess! Proctor will confess!
gaunt
He is ______, frightened, and sweating in his greatcoat.
sorrow
He is steeped in _______, exhausted, and more direct than he ever was.
tantalized
He moves as an animal, and a fury is riding in him, a ___________ search.
embodiment
He reaches out his hand as though toward an ___________ not quite real, and as he touches her, a strange soft sound, half laughter, half amazement, comes from his throat.
indictment
He would not answer aye or nay to his ____________; for if he denied the charge they'd hang him surely, and auction out his property.
agonized
His breast heaving with _________ breathing, Proctor now lays the paper down and signs his name.
prevail
I beg you, woman, ________ upon your husband to confess.
gibbet
I cannot mount the _______ like a saint. It is a fraud...I am not that man.
belie
I come to counsel Christians they should ______ themselves.
reprieve
Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; _________ or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now.
flailing
Proctor, pauses, then with a __________ of hope: Giles' wife? Have she confessed?
efficiency
Proctor, with a cold, cold horror at their _________: Why must it be written?