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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird. In-context Vocabulary Chapters 1 and 2. assuage. When it [Jem’s broken arm] healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged , he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. assuage. To relieve, ease, lessen, soothe, calm

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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  1. To Kill a Mockingbird In-context Vocabulary Chapters 1 and 2

  2. assuage • When it [Jem’s broken arm] healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.

  3. assuage • To relieve, ease, lessen, soothe, calm • Derived from suavis (agreeable to the taste) • Think Suave shampoo, or Jared is suave

  4. vapid • But by the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions, and it was then that Dill gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

  5. vapid • Flat, lifeless • Derived from vapidus (vapor)

  6. malevolent • Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom.

  7. malevolent • Wishing evil or harm to another • Mal = bad • Volent = to want

  8. nebulous • Boo’s transition from the basement to back home was nebulous in Jem’s memory.

  9. nebulous • Hazy, vague, indistinct • Like a nebulous cloud

  10. sojourn • My sojourn in the corner was a short one.

  11. sojourn • A temporary stay • Think short journey

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