to Kill a Mockingbird Vocab Ch. 1-4
Terms
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- Ambled
- To Walk Slowly
- Amiable
- friendly
- Apothecary
- early form of a pharmacist
- Assuaged
- to lessen or calm
- Auspicious
- favorable
- Beadle
- a minor city official
- Bretheren
- members of a church
- Compromise
- an agreement where each person agrees to give up something
- Contemptuous
- to feel that someone is beneath you
- Contentious
- always ready to argue or fight
- Corset
- a ladies undergarment
- Chattels
- slaves
- Dictum
- a formal statement of principle
- Diminutive
- smaller than ordinary
- Dissaprobation
- dissaproval
- Discernible
- understandable
- Dispensation
- a release from an obligation or promise
- Domicile
- place where a person lives
- Eaves
- lower edges of a roof
- Erratic
- irregular
- Fractious
- mean or cross
- Foray
- to go somewhere unusual
- Impotent
- powerless
- Malevolent
- evil
- Melancholy
- sad or gloomy
- Onslaught
- a violent attack
- Piety
- devotion to religious duties
- Predilection
- a preferred way of doing something
- Persevere
- to carry on in spite of difficulties
- Strictures
- conditions or rules
- Taciturn
- almost always silent
- Tranquility
- peacefulness
- Unsullied
- Untouched or unused
- Veranda
- a portico or porch with a roof
- harbored
- to hold in the mind
- tentative
- to be hesitant or unsure
- alist
- tilted to one side
- trosseau
- all the new clothes a bride brings with her into a new marriage
- tarried
- delayed; waited