crucible
[noun]
Synonyms: trial, affliction, calvary, cross, ordeal, tribulation, visitation

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Crucible, The
a play by Arthur Miller which describes how innocent women were charged with being witches and cruelly punished by a court of law in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. This play was written in 1953 to show how similar the Salem Witch Trials were to McCarthyism.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

cru‧ci‧ble /ˈkruːsəbəl, ˈkruːsɪbəl/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Medieval Latin; Origin: crucibulum, from Old French croiseul]
a container in which substances are heated to very high temperatures

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Crucible, The
a play by Arthur Miller which describes how innocent women were charged with being witches and cruelly punished by a court of law in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. This play was written in 1953 to show how similar the Salem Witch Trials were to McCarthyism.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲