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| to act slowey p 37 "but as i inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Moycomb county school system" |
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| p 38 arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power "Calpurnia's tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumbling of general disapproval" |
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| p 38 being cautious "Jem looked around reached up and gingerly pocketed a tiny shiny package" |
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| p 40 very bad or inferior "he had discarded the abominable blue short pants with a belt" |
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| p 41 someone who can't get to heaven "a hot stem's somebody who can't get to heaven just wallows around on lonesome roads an' if you walk through him when you die you'll be on too" |
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| p 41 to decide "Jem arbitrated awarded me first push with an extra time for Dill." |
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| p 44 a gloomy state of mind "it was a melancholy little drama" |
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| p 45 to put down forcibly "quelling of nausea and jem-yelling" |
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| p 27 to set fourth to defend on argument "Atticus was expounding upon farm problems" |
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| p 28 gross injustice or wickedness "staying behind to advise Atticus of Calpurnia's iniquities was worth a solitary sprint past the Radley tree" |
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| p 29 fury rage or madness "the cooties host showed not the faintest interest in the furor that he had wrought" |
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| p 30 a student that stays away from school without permission "the truant lady reckons she carried out the law" |
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| p 30 tending to argument "Ain't got no mother and their pa's right contentious" |
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| p 30 small / tiny "He was among the most diminutive of men" |
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| p32 inclined to make trouble "she had at last seen the error of her fractious ways" |
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| p 32 showing good natured qualities "he waited in amiable silence" |
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| p 35 disapproval "i'm afraid our activities would be received with considerable disapprobation by the more learned authorities" |
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