Vocab: A Jury of Her Peers

Question 1

Trifles

Answer 1

1) Adjective

2) Something of little value.

3) “WOmen are used to worrying over trifles.” (821)

Question 1

Disdainful

Answer 1

1) Adjective

2) full of or expressing contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior.

3) “Which the county attorney’s disdainful push of the foot had arranged.” (823)

Question 2

Acquiescence

Answer 2

1) Adjective

2) Passive acceptance or submission.

3) “In her manner of timid acquiescence.” (823)

Question 3

Detained

Answer 3

1) Verb

2) To hold or to keep as if in custody.

3) “Mrs. Hale stood examining the clothes of a woman who was being detained in a town had said she wanted.” (824)

Question 4

Shabby

Answer 4

1) Adjective

2) Inferior in quality.

3) “Wright was close! She exclaimed, holding up a shabby black skirt.” (824)

Question 5

Indecisive

Answer 5

1) Adjective

2) Not clearly marked out.

3) “But the next moment she moved, and said in her thin, indecisive way.” (827)

Question 6

Scrutinized

Answer 6

1) Verb

2) To examine closely and minutely.

3) “Mrs. Peter’s back turned, Martha Hale now scrutinizing that piece.” (827)

Question 7

Apprehensive

Answer 7

1) Adjective

2) Viewing the future with anxiety or alarm.

3) “Again their eyes met- startled, questioning, apprehensive.” (828)

Question 8

Incisively

Answer 8

1) Adverb

2) Impressively direct and decisive.

3) “No Peters, said the county attorney incisively.” (832)

Question 9

Evasion

Answer 9

1) Verb

2) The act of leaving a responsibility.

3) “There was a moment where they held each other in a steady, burning look in which there was no evasion nor flinching.” (833)

Question 10

Facetiously

Answer 10

1) Adverb

2) Joking or jesting often inappropriately.

3) “Well, Henry, said the county attorney facetiously.” (834)