To Kill a Mocking Bird - Vocab

Question 1

To soothe, to make things less severe

Answer 1

Assuage

Question 2

Showing signs that promise success

Answer 2

Auspicious

Question 3

To behave in a way that shows (pleasantly or unpleasantly) one’s feelings of dignity or superiority

Answer 3

Condescend

Question 4

Disapproval; the act or state of disapproving

Answer 4

Disapprobation

Question 5

A law that states one can not sell property that has been handed down generations (Mr. Cunningham needs a lawyer to help him sell the land)

Answer 5

Entailment

Question 6

Irritable; Causing trouble, hard to manage or control

Answer 6

Fractious

Question 7

Filled with; involving; well supplied or provided

Answer 7

Fraught

Question 8

Mental depression; Thoughtful sadness

Answer 8

Melancholy

Question 9

To argue or complain about small unimportant things

Answer 9

Quibble

Question 10

A fierce attack

Answer 10

Onslaught

Question 11

Severe criticism or condemnation

Answer 11

Stricture

Question 12

Someone who shows kindness; gentle and mild

Answer 12

Benign

Question 13

A picture of description or imagination of a person or thing that exaggerates certain characteristics, especially for the comic effect

Answer 13

Caricature

Question 14

A deserted place; abandoned

Answer 14

Desolate

Question 15

A long journey to a special place, something connected to religion

Answer 15

Pilgrimage

Question 16

To argue or complain about small, unimportant things

Answer 16

Quibble

Question 17

To think or suppose something; to believe that something is true or possible

Answer 17

Reckon

Question 18

A place or state in which there is great confusion, disorder, or destruction

Answer 18

Shambles