The Crucible
Across
- 2. An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true
- 3. The action of subduing someone or something by force
- 5. A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency
- 6. Sully, mar, or spoil
- 9. The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
- 10. A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
- 15. Done or acting according to a fixed plan or system; methodical
- 17. Active hostility or opposition
- 19. The protective care of God or of nature as a spiritual power.
- 21. Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters
- 23. Morally right or justifiable; virtuous.
- 24. Behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess
- 25. Hostility and ill-treatment, especially on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or political beliefs.
- 27. Conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs.
- 28. A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
- 29. A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well-founded or true
- 30. A system of government by one person with absolute power.
Down
- 1. Attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature
- 4. The act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk
- 7. Something that causes pain or suffering
- 8. Shared by all members of a community; for common use
- 11. Insolent or impertinent behavior
- 12. The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone
- 13. Heated disagreement
- 14. An indirect answer; a prevaricating excuse
- 16. Comparable in certain respects, typically in a way that makes clearer the nature of the things compared
- 18. Devoutly Religious
- 20. A system of ideals and ideas, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory
- 22. An official entrusted with the administration of the laws
- 26. Anything greatly disliked or abhorred