To Kill A Mockingbird Vocabulary
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- impertinence
- disrespect, impudence
- allegedly
- supposedly
- jetty
- wharf (structure protecting a harbor from erosion or tides)
- corrugated
- shaped or contracted into parallel ridges or folds, like cardboard
- vehement
- showing great intensity or fierceness of feeling
- palliation
- ease or relief of pain
- fey
- unpredictable, impish or playful
- habiliments
- dress characteristic or attire of a particular occasion
- covey
- a small group or family
- squalid
- miserable, morally degraded
- dictum
- authoritative statement
- qualms
- misgivings
- akimbo
- with hands on hips, elbows bent outwards
- foliage
- mass of leaves, leafy tree branches
- perpetrated
- to commit an act (negative connotation), such as a crime
- ingenuous
- honest, innocent in a naive way, sincere
- delete
- to remove, take or cross out from something
- indigenous
- originating or existing in a certain place, native
- fraught
- filled with something (marked by distress)
- litigants
- parties or groups to a lawsuit
- unsullied
- not defiled or disgraced, stainless
- garishly
- in a manner that is excessively bright, almost tasteless
- aberrations
- deviations from the normal or usual, irregularities
- boded
- to be an omen or indication of something
- nebulous
- unclear, indistinct
- venerable
- worthy of respect by reason of age
- assuaged
- calmed, eased
- congenital
- existing from the time of birth
- deem
- to think, judge, consider something as
- apoplectic
- of or like a sudden clot or stroke
- acrimonious
- caustic or bitter in manner or tone, strong resentment or cynicism
- erosion
- gradual wearing away of soil, by water or wind
- jubilantly
- joyfully or triumphantly
- denunciation
- open condemnation
- fractious
- irritable, stubbornly resistant to control
- rout
- to defeat in a battle overwhelmingly
- contentious
- quarrelsome, inclined to disagree
- remorseful
- painful feeling of sorrow for wrongdoing, contrite
- pensive
- expressing deep, often sad thoughtfulness, brooding on something
- succinct
- brief, terse
- scrutiny
- close observation
- tedious
- causing weariness and boredom
- calomel
- a powder often used as a laxative
- malignant
- very harmful or dangerous to health
- furtive
- sly, secretive
- philippic
- fiery, bitter verbal attack or tirade
- repertoire
- the stock of plays that performers have learned
- obstreperous
- noisy or unruly
- nocturnal
- of or occurring at night
- erratic
- deviating from the conventional standard, no fixed course
- articulate
- able to express oneself effectively or clearly
- enormity
- great wickedness (in a perpetrating sense)
- curtness
- rude abruptness, "No!"
- pestilence
- a highly infectious disease or plague
- malevolent
- desiring to harm others
- corroborating
- to strengthen or support, validate
- myopic
- near-sighted
- aridity
- dryness, lifelessness
- distaff
- female jobs or work
- subpoena
- a written order to appear in court (of law)
- auspicious
- favorable, marked by success
- edification
- intelletual or moral enlightenment
- taciturn
- often silent, noncommunicative
- ominous
- threatening, menacing, foreshadowing evil
- replenishing
- refilling
- invective
- violent verbal attack, sometimes insult
- vista
- view
- primeval
- the beginning, of the earliest times or ages
- crepey
- various fabrics characterized by a crinkled surface
- ambidextrous
- able to use both hands with equal ease, left and right
- haughty
- disdainful to others, arrogant superiority
- bovine
- characteristic of cattle or cows
- frivolous
- silly, not serious, fleeting