To Kill A Mockingbird Vocabulary 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 assuaged | to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate |
| chattels | an article of movable personal property |
| predilection | a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference |
| nebulous | hazy, vague, indistinct, confused |
| foray | a quick, sudden attack |
| fractious | readily angered, peevish, irritable, quarrelsome |
| auspicious | having omens or tokens of a favorable issue, giving promise of success, prosperity or happiness, predicting good, auspicious beginning |
| minute | extremely small in size, amount, extent or degree |
| pestilence | something that is considered harmful, destructive, evil |
| aberrations | a departure from the normal or typical |
| inordinately | not within proper or reasonable limits, immoderate, excessive |
| ingenous | lacking in cunning, guile, worldliness, artless |
| obstreperous | resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly |
| invective | an insulting or abusive word or expression |
| passe | no longer fashionable, in wide use, out of date, outmoded |
| philippic | a verbal denunciation characterized by harsh, often insulting language, a tirade |
| umbrage | offense, resentment |
| cantankerous | ill-tempered and quarrelsome, disagreeable |
| myopic | lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning |
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