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TKAM vocab 4
To Kill A Mockingbird vocab---part IV
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English
10th Grade
10/21/2006

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civil
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polite in a formal way
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edification
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moral or spiritual improvement, enlightenment
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mortification
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shame, humiliation
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deportment
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the way a person acts or behaves
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deportment
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the way a person acts or behaves
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condescend
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to do something that is beneath one's dignity
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acrimonnious
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bitter and irritating in temper, manner or speech
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fractious
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inclined to cause trouble
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contentious
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quarrelsome, fond of arguing
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contemptuous
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showing an attitude that something is worthless
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apoplectic
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on the verge of losing power to move or speak
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mollify
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to calm, to pacify
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palliate
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to make something appear less serious, to excuse
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