Vega Marissa, To kill a mockingbird Flashcards
P.3 assuaged
(v) make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense. Ex.Sen. The crowd made the players feel assuaged at game point.
P.3 apothecary
(n) a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs Ex.Sen. One day monkeys will do apothecary.
P.4 taciturn
(adj) (of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little. Ex.Sen.When presenting he was tactiturn
P.4 chattel
(n) (in general use) a personal possession. Ex.Sen. Most of the books are chattel to the mother.
P.4 unsullied
(adj) not spoiled or made impure. Ex.Sen. All her life she was unsullied unlike her brother.
P.4 dictum
a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source. Ex.Sen. The dictum was an awkward fact for her.
P.4 strictures
(n) a restriction on a person or activity. Ex. The baby has strictures on what rooms she could go in.
P.4 dispatched
(v) send off to a destination or for a purpose. Ex.Sen.She was dispatched to pick berries.
P.5 ambled
(v) walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace. Ex.Sen. They walked ambled at the beach shore
P.5 detention
(n) the punishment of being kept in school after hours. Ex.Sen. Mag has 7 hours of detention left.
P.5 dispatched
(v) deal with (a task, problem, or opponent) quickly and efficiently. Ex.Sen. She was dispatched to another class to drop off papers.
P.6 detachment
(n) a group of troops, aircaft, or ships sent away on a separate mission. Ex. the detachment of Marines was sad.
P.8 repertoire
(n) a stock of skills or types of behavior that a person habitually uses. Ex.Sen. “his repertoire of threats, stares, and denigratory gestures.
P.8 malevolent
(adj) having or showing a wish to do evil to others Ex.Sen. the shadow of dark, malevolent eyes.
P.8 vapid
(adj) offering nothing that is stimulation or challenging Ex.Sen. Trying to draw outside was a vapid problem due to the wave noise.
P.9 morbid
(adj) of the nature of or indicative of disease. Ex.Sen. There is morbid treatments throughout the world.
P.9 nocturnal
(adj) done, occurring, or active at night. Ex.Sen. Most lions are nocturnal for food.
P.9 stealthy
(adj) behaving, done, or made in a cautious and surreptitious manner, so as not to be seen or heard. Ex.Sen. When sneaking out she was stealthy.
P.9 mutilated
(v) inflict serious damage on Ex.Sen. She mutilated on her baby sister.
P.9 predilection
a preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something. Ex.Sen. My predilection on Nike shoes.
P.10 domiciled
(v) treat a specified country as a permanent home. Ex.Sen. The goverment made the souldier chose a domiciled.
P.10 flivver
(n) a cheap car or aircaft, especially one in bad condition. Ex.Sen. The flivver was taken to the junkyard.
P.11 intimidation
(n) the action of intimidating someone, or the state of being intimidated. Ex.Sen. During the basketball game Billy had intimindation of the shooting gurad.
P.11 nebulous
(adj) in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy Ex.Sen. The mist was a nebulous glow.
P.11 transition
(n) the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another Ex.Sen. Workers in transition to meeting to meeting.
P.14 concession
(n) a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands; a thing conded. Ex.Sen. Her parents made several concessions.