TKAM Montero Vocab

____, Mayella gave Atticus a final terrified glance and said to Mr. Gilmer,

Mollified

Judge Taylor told the reporter to _____ anything he happened to have written down after Mr. Finch if you were a n***er like me you’d be scared too, and told the jury to disregard the interruption.

expunge

The first thing was that Mr. Bob Ewell acquired and lost a job in a matter of days and probably made himself unique in the ____ of the nineteen-thirties: he was the only man I ever heard of who was fired from the WPA for laziness.

annals

One Sunday night, lost in fruity metaphors and ___ diction, Judge Taylor’s attention was wrenched from the page by an irritating scratching noise.

florid

...absence of any _______ evidence, this man was indicted on a capital charge and is now on trial for his life...”

corroborative

And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated ____ to ‘feel sorry’ for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people’s.

temerity

“Mr. Jem,” Reverend Sykes _____, “this ain’t a polite thing for little ladies to hear...”

demurred

Atticus was standing under the street light looking as though nothing had happened: his vest was buttoned, his collar and tie were neatly in place, his watch-chain glistened, he was his _____ self again.

impassive

“What on earth could Ewell do to me, sister?”

“Something ____,” Aunt Alexandra said. “You may count on that.” “Nobody has much chance to be ____ in Maycomb,” Atticus answered.

furtive

“I do. I guess it’s to protect our frail ladies from ____ cases like Tom’s.

sordid

Mr. Merriweather, a faithful Methodist under ____, apparently saw nothing personal in singing.

duress

When Miss Maudie was angry her ___ was icy.

brevity

Maycomb had lost no time in getting Mr. Ewell’s views on Tom’s ____ and passing them along through that English Channel of gossip,

demise

The rural children who could, usually brought clippings from what they called The Grit Paper, a publication ____ in the eyes of Miss Gates, our teacher.

spurious

Miss Tutti was sure those traveling fur sellers who came through town two days ago had ______ their furniture.

purloined

After consulting a tree to _____ from its lichen which way was south, and taking no lip from the subordinates who ventured to correct him, Colonel Maycomb set out on a purposeful journey to rout the enemy and entangled his troops so far northwest in the forest primeval that they were eventually rescued by settlers moving inland.

ascertain

I ran in the direction of Jem’s scream and sank into a flabby male stomach. Its owner said, “Uff!” and tried to catch my arms, but they were tightly ____.

pinioned

As I said it, I half pointed to the man in the corner, but brought my arm down quickly lest Atticus _____ me for pointing.

reprimand

“Mr. Finch,” Mr. Tate said ____, “Bob Ewell fell on his knife. He killed himself.”

stolidly

He coughed his dreadful ___ cough, and was so shaken he had to sit down again.

raling