English Lit

Words useful for To Kill a Mockingbird essays

Principled

Guided by strong moral values

Magnanimous

Generous or forgiving towards an opponent or other person

Self-righteous

Convinced of your own moral superiority

Entrenched

Firmly established and difficult to change

Insidious

Gradually harmful in a subtle way

Dogmatic

Unwilling to consider alternative viewpoints

Ambivalent

having mixed feelings

Equivocal

Open to more than one interpretation

Paradoxical

Seemingly contradictory, but containing truth

Repudiate

To reject firmly

Subvert

To challenge or undermine established roles, expectations, or conventions

Conceptualise

To present something in a fundamentally new way

Substantiate

To support with evidence

Synthesise

To combine ideas from established sources into a coherent whole.

Contextualise

To place something within a wider context