To Kill A Mockingbird vocabulary
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- auspicious
- promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable
- chiffarobe
- closet-like piece of furniture that combines a long space for hanging clothes
- edification
- moral improvement or guidance ; an act of being edified
- morphodite
- a human or animal combining male and female sexual characteristics or organs;
- imprudent
- not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash
- unfathomable
- Difficult or impossible to understand; incomprehensible
- dispatched
- To relegate to a specific destination or send on specific business
- condescended
- To descend to the level of one considered inferior; lower oneself ; or ;To deal with people in a patronizingly superior manner
- illicitly
- not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful
- disapprobation
- disapproval; condemnation
- wallow
- to live self-indulgently; luxuriate; revel:
- connivance
- guilty or corrupted agreement ; knowing someone is doing something wrong but do not prevent it
- indigenous
- originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native
- champertous
- a proceeding by which a person not in a suit bargains to aid n or carry on its prosecution or defense in consideration of a share of the matter in suit
- amiable
- friendly; sociable
- assuaged
- to appease; satisfy; allay or to soothe, calm, or mollify
- fractious
- refractory or unruly ; or ; readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome
- wrought
- to have an exert influence or effect
- obstreperous
- resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.; or ; noisy, clamorous, or boisterous
- stinginess
- a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money
- strictures
- An adverse remark or criticism; censure
- deportment
- demeanor; conduct; behavior ; or ; the conduct or obedience of a child in school, as graded by a teacher
- hypocrite
- a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs
- elucidate
- to provide clarification; explain.
- amanuensis
- a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another; secretary
- philippic
- a long anger characterize by harsh language
- nebulous
- hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused
- chattels
- a movable article of personal property or a slave
- impotent
- utterly unable (to do something) or without force or effectiveness
- repertoire
- a collection of works that an artist or company can perfrom
- iniquities
- gross injustice or wickedness or a violation of right or duty; wicked act; sin.
- acrimonious
- caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, etc.
- taciturn
- inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation or dour, stern, and silent in expression and manner
- squalid
- foul and repulsive, as from lack of care or cleanliness; neglected and filthy
- malevolent
- wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious
- acquiescence
- agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance
- dispensation
- something that is distributed or given out ; or; a certain order, system, or arrangement; administration or management
- predilection
- a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference
- furtive
- taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret
- dictum
- an authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion
- provocation
- something that incites, instigates, angers, or irritates
- entailment
- a limit on an inheritance of property
- denunciation
- an accusation of crime before a public prosecutor or tribunal