Chapter 2 Flashcards
condescend (con-de-scend)
verb
EXP: ¨Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one’s parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.¨
DEF: to show that you believe you are more intelligent or better than other people
foray (for-ay)
verb
EXP: “Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the house slapped it with his palm and ran back past us, not waiting to see if his foray was successful”
DEF: to make a raid or brief invasion
transaction (trans-ac-tion)
noun
EXP: “I think some money changed hands in this transaction, for as we trotted around the corner past the Radley Place I heard an unfamiliar jingle in Jem’s pockets.”
DEF: a business deal
apprehensive (ap-pre-hen-sive)
adjective
EXP: “ The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.”
DEF: afraid that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen
indigenous (in-dig-e-nous)
adjective
EXP: “The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.”
DEF: produced, living, or existing naturally in a particular region or environment
seced (se-ced)
intransitive verb
EXP: “(When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it)”
DEF: to separate from a nation or state and become independent
Catawba (ca-taw-ba)
noun
EXP: “By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of Catawba worms.”
DEF: a member of an American Indian people of North Carolina and South Carolina
cunning (cun-ning)
adjective
EXP: “The cars had long conversations with one another, they wore cunning little clothes and lived in a warm house beneath a kitchen stove.”
DEF: prettily appealing
literate (lit-er-ate)
adjective
EXP: “I suppose she chose me because she knew my names; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of “My First Reader” and the stock-market quotations from “The Mobile Register” aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.”
DEF: able to read and write
illicit (il-lic-it)
adjective
EXP: “I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.”
DEF: involving activities that are not considered morally acceptable
sentimental (sen-ti-men-tal)
noun
EXP: “There are passages which verge on sentimentality”
DEF: the quality of being sentimental especially in an excessive way
union suit (u-nion suit) noun EXP: "Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces."
DEF: an undergarment with shirt and drawers in one piece
entailment (en-tail-ment)
verb
EXP: “After a dreary conversation in our livingroom one night about his entailment, before Mr. Cunningham left he said…”
DEF: deduction or implication
scrip stamps (scrip stamps)
noun
EXP: “The Cunninghams never took anything they can’t pay back - no church baskets and no scrip stamps.”
DEF: paper money of small denominations issued by government agencies for temporary use
vexation (vex-a-tion)
noun
EXP: “Entailment was only a part of Mr. Cunningham’s vexations.”
DEF: something that worries or annoys you
