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To Kill a Mockingbird. Vocabulary. Chapters 1-4. Assuaged: made less severe or burdensome Indigenous: natural to an area Mortification: a feeling of humiliation Piety: religious devotion Sojourn: temporary stay Abominable: detestable; unpleasant Amiable: pleasant; good-natured
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To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary
Chapters 1-4 • Assuaged: made less severe or burdensome • Indigenous: natural to an area • Mortification: a feeling of humiliation • Piety: religious devotion • Sojourn: temporary stay • Abominable: detestable; unpleasant • Amiable: pleasant; good-natured • Auspicious: presenting favorable circumstances • Contentious: quarrelsome • Dispensation: typical allowance • Fractious: inclined to make trouble • Expansively: with a willingness to talk, share
Chapters 5-8 • Ensuing: following immediately afterward • Morbid: gruesome, gloomy, dark • Obliged: obligated • Prowess: strength and courage • Tacit: unspoken • Aberrations: deviations from the proper course • Accosted: assaulted • Ascertaining: determining • Cleaved: clung to • unfathomable: impossible to understand
Chapters 9-13 • Analogous: possessing similarities • Contemporaries: those who live at the same time • Ingenious: characterized by cleverness • Mausoleum: magnificent, decorated tomb • Provocation: causing annoyance • Contemptuously: scornfully • Formidable: hard to overcome or deal with • Qualms: sudden, disturbing feelings of uneasiness • Prerogative: a right or privilege • Ecclesiastical: having to do with church
Characterization 1. DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION - the writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like.2. INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION - the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him.
Chapters 14-19 • Edification: intellectual, spiritual or moral improvement • Obscure: not clearly expressed; hard to understand • Placid: pleasantly calm or peaceful • Acrimonious: bitter, stinging nature or speech • Corroborate: to make more certain; to double check • Countenance: appearance; face • Subpoena: summons for witnesses or evidence in court • Predicament: an unpleasant situation • Volition: the act of making a conscious decision • Wrathfully: with great anger, hatred or ill-will
Chapters 20-25 • Contraband: goods that are illegally imported or exported • Detachment: lack of interest or involvement • Indicted: formally charged with a crime • Temerity: reckless • Cynical: distrustful of human nature • Fatalistic: allowing what happens to happen • Heathen: someone who deliberately insults religion, God, or a way of life • Vehement: with force • Duress: constant threat • Squalid: foul and repulsive; neglected
Chapters 26-31 • Carcass: the body of a human or animal • Contraption: a mechanical device • Crooning: soft singing, humming • Eccentricities: peculiarities in conduct; things that are odd • Furtive: sneaky, secret- • Gait: manner of walking or talking • Notoriety: state of being known for something unfavorable • Recluse: someone living in seclusion • Staccato: disconnected, shortened sound • Subordinates: those who are lower in rank • Acquiescence: agreement or consent by silence • Connived: cooperated in secret; conspired • Eluded: avoided or escaped • Garishly: with excessive brightness • Reprimand: a severe reproof or rebuke
Chapters 29-31 • Acquiescence: agreement or consent by silence • Connived: cooperated in secret; conspired • Eluded: avoided or escaped • Garishly: with excessive brightness • Reprimand: a severe reproof or rebuke
FOR THE TEST • Benign: kind, gentle; inactive • Cleave: separate or cut with a tool • Articulate: express or state clearly • Lurched: to roll or pinch • Unsullied: spotless • Veneer: thin layer • Cherubic: angelic, having a sweet nature • Feeble: weak • Benevolent: kind