Name: _______________________
Date: _________
Mod: _____
Level 2
To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary
Chapters 17-31
Directions: Read each word carefully as well as the way it is used in the sentence in the
novel. Provide your own definition and part of speech based on the context of the
sentence. For more contextual clues, turn to the page number given (accurate for blue,
hard cover copies) and read the paragraph containing each word. Place each of your
answers in the correct columns. **Leave the last column blank. We will discuss and
take notes on the dictionary definitions in class. You will revise your context definitions
and parts of speech (if necessary) during this time in class.
Word
Chapter 17
1. complacently – page 177
"Mr. Ewell wrote on the back of the
envelope and looked up complacently to
see Judge Taylor staring at him as if he
were some fragrant gardenia in full
bloom on the witness stand."
Chapter 18
2. mollified – page 180
"Mollified, Mayella gave Atticus a final
terrified glance..."
Chapter 19
3. volition – page 192
"...a respectable Negro would never go up
into somebody's yard of his own volition."
4. chiffarobe – page 197
"Why, yes suh, I'd tip m'hat when I'd go
by, and one day she asked me to come
inside the fence and bust up a chiffarobe
for her."
Chapter 20
5. indicted – page 202
" '...absence of any corroborative
evidence, this man was indicted on a
capital charge and is now on trial for his
life...' "
Chapter 21
6. acquit – page 207
" 'You think they'll acquit him that fast?' "
Chapter 22
7. ruefully – page 215
"Jem grinned ruefully."
Context
Definition
Part of
Speech
Dictionary Definition
Name: _______________________
8. heathen – page 216
" '...can't any Christian judges an' lawyers
make up for heathen juries...' "
Chapter 23
9. wryly – page 218
"Atticus smiled wryly."
10. vehement – page 221
"I looked up and his face was vehement."
Chapter 24
11. impertinence – page 230
"...decided that I meant no
impertinence..."
12. largo – page 232
" 'Nothing, Jean Louise,' she said in
stately largo..."
13. bovine – page 232
"...the soft bovine sounds of ladies
munching their dainties."
Chapter 26
14. remorse – page 242
"I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse,
when passing by the old place..."
15. recluse – page 242
"...what reasonable recluse wants
children peeping through his shutters...?"
16. spurious – page 244
"...a publication spurious in the eyes of
Miss Gates, our teacher."
Chapter 27
17. notoriety – page 248
"I suppose his brief burst of fame brought
on a briefer burst of industry, but his job
lasted only as long as his notoriety..."
Chapter 28
18. repertoire – page 254
"High above us in the darkness a solitary
mocker poured out his repertoire..."
19. irascible – page 255
"...to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay..."
20. staccato – page 263
"The man was walking with the staccato
steps of someone carrying a load too
heavy for him."
Date: _________
Mod: _____
Level 2