Gotwalt - To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 1

Acquiesce

Answer 1

assent; agree without protesting to assent tacitly (agree completely), submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent

Question 2

Aggregate

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gather; accumulate formed by the conjunction of collection of pieces into a whole; total; combined ex. all of the individual people combined to form the aggregate (group)

Question 3

Aloof

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apart; reserved; at a distance, especially in feelings or interest in something; apart

Question 4

Analogous

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comparable; corresponding to something else; being similar to something else

Question 5

Apprehension

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fear anticipation of something bad happening the act of understanding something acceptance of information without judgement

Question 6

Articulate

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effective; distinct; uttered in clear syllables capable of speech; not speechless using language easily and fluently; knows lots of words and how to use them

Question 7

Assuage

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ease or lessen (pain); satisfy hunger); soothe (anger) to make mild or less severe; relive; ease; mitigate to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve to soothe, calm, or mollify

Question 8

Austere

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forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented; severe in manner or appearance; strict rigorously self disciplined and severely moral grave, sober; solemn; serious

Question 9

Benevolent

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generous; charitable; expressing goodwill or kind feelings desiring to help others; charitable intended for benefits rather than profit

Question 10

Brevity

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conciseness shortness of time or duration the quality of expressing a lot in just a few words; terseness

Question 11

Complacency

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self satisfaction; smugness; feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often during times of danger

Question 12

Concede

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admit; yield to acknowledge something as true or right; admit to acknowledge an opponents victory before it is officially announced; Hillary should have conceded to Donald Trump on election night since that is the proper behavior of a losing candidate.

Question 13

Contentious

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quarrelsome; tending to arguing or strife; quarrelsome characterized by argument or controversy

Question 14

Cordial

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gracious; heartfelt; courteous and gracious; friendly; warm

Question 15

Corroborate

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confirm; support; to make more certain; confirm ex. The girl said she was at the store, and her friend corroborated her story

Question 16

Diligence

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steadiness of effort; persistent hard work; constant and earnest effort to accomplish something

Question 17

Edify

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instruct; correct morally; to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift

Question 18

Elucidate

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explain; enlighten to make clear; throw light upon; explain

Question 19

Elusive

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evasive; baffling; hard to grasp 1. eluding clear perception to complete mental grasp; hard to express or define

Question 20

Fanaticism

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excessive zeal; extreme devotion to believe or cause; being fanatical in spirit or conduct; extreme behavior

Question 21

Furtive

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stealthy; sneaky taken, done, or used in a sneaky, security way surreptitiously or by stealth sly; shifty

Question 22

Gravity

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seriousness; serious or critical nature serious of dignified behavior the force of attraction that causes things to fall toward the center of earth heaviness of weight

Question 23

Haughtiness

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pride; arrogance; proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; looking down on things that you thing aren’t good enough for you

Question 24

Hypocritical

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pretending to be virtuous pretense of having beliefs or principles that you don’t actually have ex. Pretending to be a nice person and then doing mean things when people aren’t watching

Question 25

Illicit

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illegal; not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful disapproved of or not permitted for moral or ethical reasons ex. It wasn’t against the law to lie to his parents, but it was illicit.

Question 26

Induce

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persuade; bring about; to lead or move by persuasion; to get someone to do something by persuading them to bring about, produce, or cause

Question 27

Integrity

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uprightness; wholeness adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty the state of being whole, unbroken in perfect condition

Question 28

Mollify

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soothe To soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease to mitigate or reduce; soften

Question 29

Ominous

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threatening; portending evil or harm, foreboding; threatening indicating the nature of a future event, for good or evil; having an omen

Question 30

Perpetual

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everlasting; continuing or enduring forever; everlasting lasting an indefinitely long time

Question 31

Phenomena

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observable facts; subjects of scientific investigation; a fact or occurrence that is observed something that is impressive or extraordinary a remarkable or exceptional person; prodigy; wonder ex. That 3 year old who knew ten thousand words was a phenomenon

Question 32

Piety

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religious devotion or godliness; reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations dutiful respect or regard for parents, homeland, etc.

Question 33

Predilection

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partiality; preference; a tendency to think favorable about a person or thing; preference; partiality

Question 34

Profane

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violate; desecrate; treat unworthily irreverence of contempt for God or sacred principles not devoted to holy of religious purposes unholy; heathen; pagan

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Profound

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deep; not superficial; complete Deep thinking regarding subjects or knowledge, a deep understanding originating in or penetrating to the depths of one’s being being or going far beneath the external or obvious

Question 36

Quell

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extinguish; put down; quiet; to suppress; put an end to; extinguish To vanquish, subdue To quiet or allay; ex. The child’s mom read him a bedtime story to quell his fears about monsters under the bed.

Question 37

Recluse

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n. hermit; loner 1. a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation

Question 38

Scrutinize

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examine closely and critically; to examine something in great detail or with careful or critical attention

Question 39

Sluggish

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slow; lazy; lethargic; not quick to take action; lacking in energy; lazy slow to act or respond

Question 40

Stolid

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adj. unruffled, impassive, dull 1. not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive

Question 41

Taciturn

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habitually silent; talking little; inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversations dour, stern, and silent in expression and manner

Question 42

Terse

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concise; abrupt; pithy neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as a language abruptly concise; curt; abrupt

Question 43

Tirade

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extended scolding; denunciation; harangue; a prolonged outburst of bitter, mean speech a long, vehement speech a passage dealing with a single theme or idea, as in poetry

Question 44

Tranquility

Answer 44

calmness; peace; calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity