Vocab crucible

• Paradox (n)

  one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities
• Corroborate (v)

  To support with evidence or authority; to make more certain
• Pretend (n)

  A false show; A professed rather than real intention or purpose
• Defer (v)

  To submit to another’s wishes, opinion, or governance usually through respect or deference
• Ameliorate (v)

  To make better or more tolerable
• Indignant (adj)

  Showing anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean
• Daft (adj)

  Mad; insane; silly; foolish
• Qualm (N)

  A feeling of uneasiness about a point, especially of conscience or propriety; misgiving
• Probity (N)

  Honesty; integrity; adherence to the highest principles and ideas
• Callously (adv)

  Done without regard to feeling or showing no emotion or sympathy
• Base (adj)

  Degrading; contemptuous; lacking higher qualities or mind or spirit
• Agape (adj)

  Being in a state of wonder
• Flounder (v)

  To proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually
• Reprieve (v)

  To delay the punishment of; to give relief or deliverance to for a time
• Adamant (adj)

  Unyielding; unshakable or immovable especially in opposition
• Cleave(v)

  To adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly; to cling
• Quail(v)

  To recoil in dread or terror; to cower
• Deposition (n)

  Testimony taken down in writing under oath
• Calumny (n)

  The act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to damage another’s reputation
• Ideology(N)

  a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture