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Verbs $100. Inquiring An inquiring soul in the middle of the room said, “Why don’t they like the Jews, you reckon, Miss Gates?”. Verbs $200.
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Verbs $100 InquiringAn inquiring soul in the middle of the room said, “Why don’t they like the Jews, you reckon, Miss Gates?”
Verbs $200 ObligedNothing less than the bloodhounds must be used to locate their furniture, Miss Tutti insisted, so Mr. Tate was obliged to go ten miles out the road, round up the county hounds and put them on the trail.
Verbs $300 Connived Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him…if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn’t meet his eye, and the day I cant do that I’ll know I lost him.
Verbs $400 Bourne In the first place, few rural children had access to newspapers, so the burden of Current Events was borne by the town children, convincing the bus children more deeply that the town children got all the attention anyway.
Verbs $500 CrooningAll the way to the house, Helen said, she heard a soft voice behind her, crooning foul words.
Nouns $100 ApprehensionShe put away from her what ever it was that gave her a pinprick of apprehension, and suggested that I give the family a preview in the living room.
Nouns $200 Carcass“First thing you can do, Ewell, is get your stinkin’ carcass off my property.”
Nouns $300 RecluseI sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taking part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley – what reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole, wandering in his collards at night?
Nouns $400 LamentHigh above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire In blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ck of a blue jay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will.
Nouns $500 EccentricitiesJem seemed to have put out of his mind whatever it was he wanted to forget, and our classmates mercifully let us forget our fathers eccentricities.
Adjectives $100 SolitaryHigh above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire In blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ck of a blue jay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will.
Adjectives $200 HexagonalMy arms were beginning to tingle, and they were red with small hexagonal marks.
Adjectives $300 GallantI thought it gallant of him to do so.
Adjectives $400 SpuriousThe rural children who could, usually brought clippings from what they called The Grit Paper, a publication spurious in the eyes of Miss Gates, our teacher.
Adjectives $500 IrascibleHigh above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire In blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ck of a blue jay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will.
Potpourri $100 SquanderedWe squandered our first nickels on the House of Horrors, which scared us not at all; we entered the black seventh-grade room and were let around by the temporary ghoul in residence and were made to touch several objects alleged to be component parts of a human being.
Potpourri $200 PerforatedHis sleeves were perforated with little holes.
Potpourri $300 AmiableIt must have been after midnight, and I was puzzled by his amiable acquiescence.
Potpourri $400 UntrammeledHe liked to tell things his own way, untrammeled by state or defense, and sometimes it took him a while.
Potpourri $500 AcquiescenceIt must have been after midnight, and I was puzzled by his amiable acquiescence.
Adverbs $100 BarelyWhen Mr. Tate spoke again his voice was barely audible.
Adverbs $200 AllegedlyThis practice allegedly overcame a variety of evils: standing in front of his fellows encouraged good posture and gave a child poise; delivering a short talk made him word conscious, learning his current event strengthened his memory; being singled out made him more than ever anxious to return to the Group.
Adverbs $300 Abruptly“Heck,” said Atticus abruptly. “that was a switchblade you were waving.”
Adverbs $400 Pointedly“Honney, I don’t know. Just picked it up. One of the few things I haven’t read,” he said pointedly.
Adverbs $500 GarishlyThey were were white hands, sickly white hands that had never seen the sun, so white they stood out garishly against the dull crème wall in the dim light of Jem’s room.