To Kill a Mocking Bird Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 assuage | to make lses intense or severe |
| vapid | uninteresting, dull |
| malevolent | malicious |
| phantom | a ghost; something apparently seen, heard, or sensed but having no physical reailty |
| flivver | an old car |
| beadle | policeman |
| indigenous | native |
| entailment | a consequence for services rendered; law to limit the inheritance of (real property) to a specific line or class of heirs |
| contentious | quarrelsome |
| disapprobation | moral disapproval |
| auspicious | favored |
| tacit | not spoken |
| morbid | gruesome |
| asinine | stupid |
| edification | enlightenment |
| cleaved | to split or separate |
| morphodite | half man, half woman |
| changelings | a child secretly exchanged for another |
| analogous | similar |
| obstreperous | noisily deviant |
| apoplectic | symptoms of a stroke |
| philippic | a harsh, often insulting verbal denoucement |
| umbrage | offense, resentment |
| palliation | to make less severe |
| nether | located beneath or below |
| boded | to be an omen |
| innate | existing naturally rather than acquired |
| caste | an exclusive and restricted social class |
| fey | displalying a magical quality |
| elucidate | to make clear or plain |
| sundry | various |
| ambidextrous | using both hands with equal ease |
| lavations | to wash |
| chiffarobe | chest of drawers |
| expunge | to erase or remove completely |
| unmitigated | not diminished or lessened |
| distaff | traditionally women's work |
| feral | existing in a wild state |
| furtive | shiftym has hidden motives |
| vehement | forceful in expressing emotions |
| spruious | lacking validity |
| purloined | to steal, violation of trust |
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