Vocab Test Flashcards
We had just come to her gate when Jem ________ my baton and ran _______ wildly up the steps into Mrs. Dubose’s front yard.
snatched; flailing
From questions that Mr. Gilmer did not ______ sufficiently irrelevant or _______ to object to.
deem; immaterial
The name Ewell gave me a ________ feeling. Maycomb had lost no time in getting Mr. Ewell’s views on Tom’s _______ and passing them along through that English Channel of gossip.
queasy; demise
Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to _____ lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been ________ to Mount Everest.
obsess; analogous
With these ________, however, he would not remain as ________ as we wished him to
attributes; inconspicuous
I took ______ at Mrs. Dubose’s assessment of the family’s mental _______.
umbrage; hygiene
His sermon was a ________ denunciation of sin, an austere declaration of the motto on the wall behind him: he warned his flock against the evils of ______ brews, gambling, and strange women.
forthright; heady
The Maycomb jail was a miniature _______ joke one cell wide and two cells high, complete with tiny battlements and flying _________.
Gothic; buttresses
To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed _______ sunless county cubbyholes: the tax collector, the county clerk, the county solicitor, the circuit clerk, and the judge of ______ lived in cool dim hutches that smelled of decaying record books.
sundry; probate
Miss Maudie’s ________ extended to Jem and Dill, whenever they paused in their pursuits: we ________ the benefits of a talent Miss Maudie had hitherto kept hidden from us.
benevolence; reaped
