To Kill A Mockingbird Vocab

Assuage

to make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense (verb)

Taciturn

(of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little (adjective)

Vapid

offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging (adjective)

Predilection

a preference or special liking for something; a bias in flavor of something (noun)

nebulous

in the form of cloud or haze (hazy; not physical, more metaphorical) (adjective)

entailment

a process when a property has by which the passed from a owner to his heir, property can’t be sold upon death, entailment can only be passed down, not sold (noun)

condescension

an attitude of patronizing superiority disdain -talking down on others (noun)

auspicious

conducive to success; flavorable (adjective)

pestilence

a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague (noun)

edification

the instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectuallly (education) (noun)

ascertain

to find something out for certain, make sure of (verb)

aberration

a departure from what is normal, usual or expected typically on that is unwelcome (noun)

philippic

a bitter attack or denunciation, especially a verbal one (noun)

umbrage

offense or annoyance (noun) (REMBER: you say “I took ____”)

rectitude

morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness (noun)

interdict

an authoritative prohibition; a ban (noun)

palliation

the act or process of relieving a patients suffering-relied without curing thr disease that is causing it (noun)

cantankerous

bad-tempered, argumentative + uncooperative (adjective)

contentious

causing or likely to cause an argument, controversial (adjective)

persevere

continue in a course of action even in the face of dififcaulty or with little or no prospect of success (verb)

succinct

(especially of something written or spoken) breifly and clearly expressed (short) (adjective)

acquiescence

the acceptance of something without protest (nouna)

futility

pointlessness of uselessness (noun)

aggregation

the formation of a number of things into a cluster (npun)n

encumber

to restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a wat that free action or movement is difficult (verb)

elucidate

to make something clear; explain (verb)

litigant

a person involved in a lawsuit (noun)

corroborate

to confirm or give support to (a statement, therory or finding)

(verb)

glean

to gather grain or other produce left by reapers (collect) (verb)

acrimonious

caustic, stinging or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, (adjective)

tenet

a principle, belief, or doctrine generally hekd to be true (noun)n

mollify

to soothe in temper or disposition (verb)

volition

the power of choosing or determining; will (noun) (REMBER: “Do smth of your own_____”)

unmitigated

absolute; total (adjective)

temerity

confidence, audacity (noun)

sordid

marked by baseness or grossness, vile, dirty (verb)

pinion

to disable or restrain by binding the arms (verb)

stolid

havin or expressing little or no sensibilty, unemotional (adjective)