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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird. In-context Vocabulary Chapters 19-20. Volition (p. 192). I found myself believing him in spite of his protesting too much. He seemed to be a respectable Negro, and a respectable Negro would never go up into somebody’s yard of his own volition. Volition (p. 192).

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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  1. To Kill a Mockingbird In-context Vocabulary Chapters 19-20

  2. Volition (p. 192) • I found myself believing him in spite of his protesting too much. He seemed to be a respectable Negro, and a respectable Negro would never go up into somebody’s yard of his own volition.

  3. Volition (p. 192) • The act of willing, choosing, deciding

  4. Expunge (p. 196) • Judge Taylor told the reporter to expunge anything he happened to have written down after Mr. Finch if you were a…

  5. Expunge (p. 196) • To strike or blot out • Erase • Obliterate

  6. Impudent (p. 198) • Are you being impudent to me boy?

  7. Impudent (p. 198) • Characterized by offensive boldness

  8. Aridity (p. 203) • His voice had lost its aridity, its detachment, and he was talking to the jury as if they were folks on the post office corner.

  9. Aridity (p. 203) • Dryness • Barrenness • Lack of interest

  10. Temerity (p. 204) • And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to “feel sorry” for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people’s.

  11. Temerity (p. 204) • Reckless boldness • Rashness

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