To Kill a Mockingbird Vocab 1 Flashcards
adj. Silent
- Their sister Alexandra was the Finch who remained at the Landing: she married a ______ man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full.
Taciturn
v. to relieve
- When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were ______, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.
Assuage
adj. uninteresting
- But by the end of August our repertoire was _____, from the countless reproductions, and it was then that Dill gave us the idea o making Boo Radley come out.
Vapid
n. preference
- The Radley’s, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a ________ unforgivable in Maycomb.
Predilection
adj. hazy; indistinct
- Boo’s transition from the basement to back home was _____ in Jem’s memory.
Nebulous
n. poverty
- After a dreary conversation in our livingroom one night about his ______, before Mr. Cunningham left he said, “Mr. Finch, I don’t know how I’ll be able to pay you.”
Entailment
v. to treat someone as inferior
- Jem _______ 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.
Condescended
adj. favorable
- The remainder of my schooldays where no more _______ that the first.
Auspicious
n. a grape
- Plucking an occasional camellia, getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss Maudie Atkinson’s cow on a summers day, helping ourselves to someone’s ________ was part of our ethnical culture, but money was different.
Scuppernong
n. an epidemic disease
- “When it comes fall this dries ip and the wind blows it all over Maycomb County!” Miss Maudie’s faced likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament ______.
Pestilence
n. process of instructions or improvements
- “No,” said Atticus, “putting his life’s history on display for the ______ of the neighborhood.”
Edification
v. to find out for certain
- When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ________ the hour every five minutes.
Ascertain
different from normal
- Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the _______ of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourseves.
Aberration
adj. characteristic feature
- A flip of the coin revealed the uncompromising ______ of Aunt Alexandra and Francis.
Lineament
n. harsh statements
- I pulled at his sleeve, and we were followed up the sidewalk by a _______ on our family’s moral degeneration, the major premise of which was that half the Finches were in the asylum anyway, bit if out mother were living we would not have come to such a state.
Philippic
