TKAM Montero Vocab

She married a ___ man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full.

taciturn

Inside the house lived a ____ phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him.

malevolent

The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities ____to that region.

indigenous

After a dreary conversation in our livingroom one night about his ____, before Mr. Cunningham left he said, "Mr. Finch, I don't know when I'll ever be able to pay you."

entailment

She was furious, and when she was furious Calpurnia's grammar became ___.

erratic

She had always been too hard on me, she had at last seen the error of her ____ ways

fractious

helping ourselves to someone's ____ was part of our ethical culture, but money was different.

scuppernongs

Dill excluded me from their plans, she was only another lady in the neighborhood, but a relatively ____ presence.

benign

we were not to play an ____ game he had seen us playing or make fun of anybody on this street or in this town.

asinine

Dill Harris! Gamblin' by my fishpool? I'll strip-poker you, sir!" Atticus saved Dill from immediate _____. "

dismemberment

When the new wore off his grandfather's watch, and carrying it became a day's burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of _____ the hour every five minutes.

ascertaining

Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the ____ of nature.

aberrations

He said Atticus was still _____ about us and the Radleys and it wouldn't do to push him any.

touchous

When we were on the sidewalk in front of Miss Maudie's, Mr. Avery ____ us. He had a pink face and a big stomach below his belt

accosted

Uncle Jack raised his eyebrows and said nothing. I was proceeding on the dim theory, aside from the _____ attractiveness of such words,

innate

But he didn't. He simply murmured, "Her use of bathroom ____ leaves nothing to the imagination.

invective

When he gave us our air-rifles Atticus wouldn't teach us to shoot. Uncle Jack instructed us in the ____ thereof;

rudiments

I pulled at his sleeve, and we were followed up the sidewalk by a ____ on our family's moral degeneration

philippic

I wasn't sure what Jem resented most, but I took ____ at Mrs. Dubose's assessment of the family's mental hygiene

umbrage

what made him break the bonds of "You just be a gentleman, son," and the phase of selfconscious _____ he had recently entered.

rectitude