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To Kill A Mockingbird Vocabulary List #1
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Literature
9th Grade
10/16/2009

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Term
Abominable
Definition

Adjective

1. worthy of causing discust or hatred

2. disagreeable or unpleasant

S: bad, horrid, aweful, disgusting

A: alluring, appealing, delightful

 

Term
Amiable
Definition

Adjective

1. having a friendly likeable disposition

2. lovley or loveable

S: attractive, benign, cheerful, charming, complacent

A: crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean

Term
Apothecary
Definition

Noun

1. a pharmicist or druggist

2. a drug store or pharmacy

S: dispencer, druggist

Term
Auspicious
Definition

Adjective

1. of good omen; boading well for the future

2. favored by fortune, successful

S: bright, favorable, happy, hopeful

A: unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky

Term
Benign
Definition

Adjective

1. having a kindly disposition

2. showing excessive gentelness or kindness

S: amiable, kind, liberal

A: hateful, hostile, malignant

Term
Chattel
Definition

Noun

1. law a movable article of personal property

2. anything owned that is not attached to the ground such as a building or house.

3. or a slave

S: belongings, capital, gear

Term
Condescend
Definition

Verb

1. to behave as if one is concious of decending from a position of superority

2. to stoop; to level ones self

S: accomidate, accord, agree

A: rise above

Term
Contentious
Definition

Adjective

1. given to contenbron

2. moving or likley to cause contention

3. controversial

S: fractious, bellicose, reealcirrant

A: harmonious, amicable

Term
Dictum
Definition

Noun

1. an athoritative, often formal pronouncement

S: pronounciamento, fiat, manifesto

Term
Discernable
Definition

Adjective

1. perceptive, as by vision or the intellect

 

Term
Dispensation
Definition

Noun

1. the act of dispensing

2. somthing dispencensed, a system of dispensing

3. exemption from obligation by rule or authority

S: dissemination, consignment, quota, remission, license

Term
Eccentric
Definition

Adjective

1. departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern; deviating from a circular path; a person wiht unconventional behavior

S: unconventional, fey, idiosyn, crabic, dotty, screwy, kook

A: conventional, regular

Term
Erratic
Definition

Adjective

1. having no fixed or regular course, wandering, lacking consistancy, regularity, or uniformity; devaiting from the coustamary

S: capricious, straying, aberrant, planetary

A: predictable, steady, orderly

Term
Expound
Definition

Verb

1. to give a detailed statement of; set forth; to explain in detail, eludicate; to make a detailed statement

S: state, express, present, formulate, eludicate

Term
Foray
Definition

1. Noun

2. a quick raid usually for the purpose of taking a plunder

S: attack, assault, invasion, incursion, sortie

Term
Fractious
Definition

Adjective

1. refractory or unruly

2. easily angered

S: testy, captious, petulant, snappish, pettish, waspish, touchy.

 

Term
Illicit
Definition

Adjective

1. not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful

S: illegitimate, prohibited.

Term
Imprudent
Definition

Adjectives

1. not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash

S: unwise, indiscreet, ill-advised.

Term
Indigenous
Definition

Adjective

1. originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native

S: autochthonous, aboriginal, natural

A: foreign, alien

Term
Iniquity
Definition

Noun

1. gross injustice or wickedness.

S: evildoing, infamy, depravity, knavery

Term
Malevolent
Definition

Adjective

1. wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious

 

Term
Morbid
Definition

Adjective

1. suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme

S: unwholesome, diseased, unhealthy, sick, sickly; tainted, corrupted, vitiated.

A: cheerful.

Term
Nebulous
Definition

Adjective

1. hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused

 

Term
Nocturnal
Definition

Adjective

1. of or pertaining to the night

S: nighttime

Term
Piety
Definition

Noun

1. reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations

S: godliness, devotion, devoutness, sanctity, holiness.

A: irreverence.

Term
Placid
Definition

Adjective

1. pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed

 

Term
Predilection
Definition

Noun

1. a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference

S: bias, inclination, leaning, liking, weakness, predisposition, prepossession.

Term
Probate
Definition

Noun

1. Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.

Term
Stricture
Definition

Noun

1. a remark or comment, esp. an adverse criticism

2. an abnormal contraction of any passage or duct of the body.

Term
Synonymous
Definition

Adjective

1. having the character of synonyms or a synonym; equivalent in meaning; expressing or implying the same idea

Term
Tacit
Definition

Adjective

1. understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.

S: unexpressed, unspoken, unsaid, implicit

A: expressed.

Term
Taciturn
Definition

Adjective

1. inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.

S: silent, uncommunicative, reticent, quiet

Term
Unsullied
Definition

Adjective

1. spotlessly clean and fresh

Term
Vapid
Definition

Adjective

1. lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat: vapid tea

S: spiritless, unanimated, tiresome, prosaic.

Term
Wallow
Definition

Verb

1. to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment: Goats wallowed in the dust.

S: swim, bask.

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