To Kill A Mockingbird Vocab.1 Flashcards
To make milder or less severe, relieve, ease, mitigate; to appease, satisfy, allay, relive; to soothe or calm
Assuage
Wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; evil, harmful, injurious
Malevolent
A quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder; a quick, sudden attack
Foray
Skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness
Cunning
A druggist, a pharmacist; a pharmacy or drugstore
Apothecary
Inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation
Taciturn
A tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference
Predilection
Hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused; cloudy or cloudlike
Nebulous
Not legally permitted or authorized, unlicensed, unlawful; disapproved of or not permitted for moral or ethical reasons
Illicit
An authoritative pronouncement, judicial assertion; a saying
Dictum
Not soiled, untarnished; virginal, pure
Unsullied
A place of residence, abode, house or home
Domicile
Originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country, native
Indigenous
Lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor, insipid, flat; without liveliness or spirit, dull or tedious
Vapid
A feeling of humiliation or shame, as though some injury to one’s pride of self-respect; a cause or source of such humiliation or shame
Mortification
