Kill a Mocking Bird Chapter 1 Flashcards
Assuaged
to make an unpleasant feeling less intense
Taciturn
quiet
Ambled
slow/relaxed pace
Repertoire
collection of pieces a performer can do or items
Domiciled
permanent legal residence
Condescended
superiority or patronized
Apprehensively
anxious/fearful
Entailment
settlement of inheritance so it remains in the family
Vexations
state of irritation
Onslaught
fierce, destructive attack
Expounding
to explain or elaborate
Contentious
confrontational
Fractious
irritable
Auspicious
likely success will happen
Wrought
beaten or shaped by hammering
Mortifying
great embarassment or shame
Arbitrated
to decide as a person in power, negotiated
Evasion
action of avoiding
Tacit
understood with implication
Benevolence
quality of being kind
Ramshackle
severe despair
Dismemberment
act of taking apart
Ascertaining
find out for certain
Quelling
putting an end to usually with force
Rendered
cause or provide, separate