To Kill a Mockingbird Vocab #1 Chapter 1
Terms
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copy deck
- ambled
- a leisurely walk
- apothecary
- one who prepares and sells drugs/compounds
- assuaged
- pacify, quiet
- beadle
- minor church official
- brethren
- members of various sects/groups
- corset
- girdle
- dictum
- an authorative announcement
- domicile
- the place of residence of an individual or a family
- eaves
- the lower border of a roof that overhangs the wall
- foray
- raid/pillage
- chattels
- slaves
- impotent
- lacking in power, strenght or vigor
- impudent
- lacking modesty, cocky, boldness
- malevolent
- vicious ill will, spite, hatred
- Methodist
- a type of Christian
- picket
- to enclose, fence
- piety
- the quality or state of being religious
- predilection
- something you favor beforehand
- ramrod
- severity or stiffness
- repertoire
- a list of accomplishments
- scold
- one addicted to abusive speech
- spittoon
- a receptacle for spit
- strictures
- something that closely restrains or limits
- taciturn
- solitary; disliking conversation; temporarily disinclined to talk
- unsullied
- unstained clean
- veranda
- porch