To Kill A Mockingbird Vocabulary (Part One)
DIRECTIONS: As you read To Kill A Mockingbird, you will be responsible for
some of the vocabulary words that appear. For each of the words below, write
the sentence from the novel in which the word appears in or its definition and
part of speech. Make sure you define the word the way it is used in the
sentence. Next to each word is the chapter number where the word and
sentence can be found.
Word
assuaged (1)
Sentence (context)
Definition and part of speech
When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being
able to play football were assuaged, he was
seldom self-conscious about his injury.
illicitly (2)
Forbidden, by laws rules
customs (Adv).
entailment (2)
a legal situation regarding
the use of inherited
property (N.)
To agree to do something
that you believe is beneath
condescended (2)
your dignity
seceded (2)
disapprobation (3)
contentious (3)
fractious (3)
"When Alabama seceded from the Union on
January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded
from Alabama...
I'm afraid our activities would be received with
considerable disapprobation by the more learned
authorities.
“Aint got no mother,” was the answer, “and
their paws right contentious.”
She had always been too hard on me, she had at
last seen the error of her fractious ways, she was
sorry and too stubborn to say so
erratic (3)
unpredictable, not even in
pattern or movement (adj.)
To quell something is to
quelling (4)
quiet or pacify it. (V.)
auspicious (4)
arguing favorable circumstances
and good luck (Adj.)
asinine (5)
Lastly, we were to stay away from that house until
we were invited there, we were not to play an
asinine game he had seen us playing or make fun
of anybody on this street or in this town.
chameleon (5)
able to change skin color
(N,)
ramshackle (6)
guilelessness (9)
invective (9)
The back of the Radley house was less inviting
than the front: a ramshackle porch ran the width
of the house; there were two doors and two dark
windows between the doors
The internal arrangements of the Finch house
were indicative of Simon’s guilelessness and the
absolute trust…
Her use of bathroom invective leaves nothing
to the imagination.
ingenuous (9)
lacking in sophistication
or worldliness (adj.)
vehemently (10)
showing strong feeling,
forceful, passionate (adv.)
rectitude (11)
In later years, I sometimes wondered exactly what made
Jem do it, what made him break the bonds of "You just
be a gentleman, son," and the phase of self-conscious
rectitude he had recently entered.
tirade (11)
umbrage (11)
I was expecting a tirade, but all she said was,
"You may commence reading, Jeremy.”
Offense or annoyance
(n.)
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