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To Kill A Mockingbird Vocab Flashcards

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Piety

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Dutiful respect or regard

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Assuaged

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To make milder or less severe

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Dictum

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An authoritative pronouncement

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Taciturn

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Inclined to silence; reserved in speech

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Quaint

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Having an old fashioned attractiveness or charm

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Malevolent

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Wishing evil or harm to another

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Predilection

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A tendency to think favorably of something in particular; a preference

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Domiciled

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A place of residence

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Profane

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Not devoted to holy or religious purposes; to treat with irreverence or contempt

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Terrain

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Ground or a plot of land

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Indigenous

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Originating in a particular region; inherited or natural

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Diminutive

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Small, tiny, or little

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Fractious

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Refractory or unruly; stubborn; irritable

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Disapprobation

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Disapproval; condemnation

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Auspicious

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Promising success; favored by fortune

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Palette

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The set of colors on a board or surface

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Benevolence

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Desire to do good to others; an at of kindness

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Honed

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Having sharped a razor or another cutting object on a whetstone

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Caricature

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An imitation or copy so distorted or inferior as to be ludicrous

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Inordinately

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Not within proper reason or limits

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Ingenuous

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Free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation

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Innate

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Inherent in the essential character of something

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Guilelessness

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Free from guile; sincere or honest

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Fanatical

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Motivated or characterized by an extreme zeal

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Tentatively

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Unsure, or uncertain

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Rudiments

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The elements or first principles of a subject

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Articulate

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Capable of clear, understandable speech patterns

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Melancholy

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A gloomy state of mind

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Palliation

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To relieve or lesson without curing

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Rectitude

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Rightness of principle or conduct; correctness

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Trainquil

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Free from commotion

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Protruded

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To project or thrust forward

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Propensities

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A natural inclination or tendency

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Frivolous

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Hat actresses by a lack of seriousness

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Propelled

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To drive or urge to move

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Formidable

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Causing fear; intimidating; of great strength

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Obliquely

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At an angle; slanting; sloping

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Edification

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Improvement or enlightenment

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Reverent

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Feeling, expressing, or characterized by reverence

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Infallible

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Absolutely trustworthy or sure

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Placid

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Pleasantly calm or peaceful

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Begrudge

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O envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of someone

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Ominous

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Portending evil or harm; indicating the nature of a future event

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Vivid

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Strikingly bright or intense; full if life

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Oblivious

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Unmindful; unconscious; forgetful

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Succinct

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Expressed in few words

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Acquiescence

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The act or condition of giving tactic

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Elucidate

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To make lucid or clear; to explain

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Unobtrusive

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Not obtrusive; inconspicuous

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Turbulent

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Being in a state of agitation or tumult

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Corroborating

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To confirm or make certain

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Congenital

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Having by nature a specified character

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Acrimonious

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Caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature

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Serene

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Calm, peaceful, or tranquil

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Complacently

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Pleased with oneself or one’s merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect

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Stealthy

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Done, characterized, or acting with stealth

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Impudent

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Characterized by impertinence or effrontery; shameless or brazenly immodest

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Fraud

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An act of deceit or trickery

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Aridity

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Without moisture; lacking interest or imaginativeness

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Unmitigated

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Not softened or lessened

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Temerity

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Reckless boldness

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Furtive

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Taken or used by implementing stealth

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Sordid

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Morally ignoble; selfish; dirty or filthy

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Droned

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To make dull

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Impertinence

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An unmannerly intrusion or presumption

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Recluse

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A person who lives in sulcus ion or far from society; one who voluntarily remains in a cell for life

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Enunciated

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To pronounce in an articulate manner; to declare definitely, as a theory

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Savored

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The quality in a substance that affects it’s taste or smell

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Irascible

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Easily provoked or angered

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Lament

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To feel or express sorrow or regret for someone

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