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To Kill A Mockingbird List Two Flashcards

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Taciturn

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Adjective: silent and uncommunicative
Synonym-reticent
Antonym-boisterous

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Assuage

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Verb: to lessen the intensity of

Assuagement(noun)

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Vapid

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Adjective: lacking liveliness, tang, or briskness
Synonym-insipid
Antonym-boisterous
Vapidly(adverb) vapidness(noun)

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Predilection

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Noun: an established preference of something

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Nebulous

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Adjective: indistinct or vague
Antonym-lucid
Nebulously(adverb) nebulousness(noun)

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Entailment

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Noun: limited inheritance

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Condescension

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Noun: patronizing attitude or behavior
Synonym-patronizing
Condescending(adjective)

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Auspicious

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Adjective: showing promise in terms of success

Synonym-propitious

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Obstreperous

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Adjective: unruly, aggressive, noisy, resistant to control

Obstreperously(adverb) obstreperousness(noun)

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Pestilence

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Noun: a fatal epidemic disease

Pestilential(adjective) pestilentially(adverb)

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Edification

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Noun: act of improving morally or spiritually

Edify(verb)

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Ascertain

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Verb: to make sure of, to learn, to find out

Ascertainable(adjective) ascertainment(noun)

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Aberration

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Noun: state of being different than usual
Synonym- divergence, deviation
Aberrant(adjective) aberrate(verb)

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Lineament

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Noun: distinctive characteristic or feature

Lineal(adjective)

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Philippic

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Noun: sharp criticism or speech

Synonym-rebuke, tirade

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Umbrage

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Noun: annoyance or displeasure

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Rectitude

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Noun: morally correct behavior or thinking

Rectitudinous(adjective)

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Interdict

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Verb: to prohibit or forbid
Noun: prohibition/forbidding by law
Interdiction(noun)

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Palliation

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Noun: easing the severity of

Palliate(verb) palliator(noun)

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Cantankerous

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Adjective: difficult and uncooperative
Synonym-contentious
Cantankerously(adverb) cantankerousness(noun)

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