To Kill a Mockingbird

1. To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary

2. Chapters 1-4 • Assuaged: made less severe or burdensome • Indigenous: natural to an area • Mortification: a feeling of humiliation • Piety: religious devotion • Sojourn: temporary stay • Abominable: detestable; unpleasant • Amiable: pleasant; good-natured • Auspicious: presenting favorable circumstances • Contentious: quarrelsome • Dispensation: typical allowance • Fractious: inclined to make trouble • Expansively: with a willingness to talk, share

3. Chapters 5-8 • Ensuing: following immediately afterward • Morbid: gruesome, gloomy, dark • Obliged: obligated • Prowess: strength and courage • Tacit: unspoken • Aberrations: deviations from the proper course • Accosted: assaulted • Ascertaining: determining • Cleaved: clung to • unfathomable: impossible to understand

4. Chapters 9-13 • Analogous: possessing similarities • Contemporaries: those who live at the same time • Ingenious: characterized by cleverness • Mausoleum: magnificent, decorated tomb • Provocation: causing annoyance • Contemptuously: scornfully • Formidable: hard to overcome or deal with • Qualms: sudden, disturbing feelings of uneasiness • Prerogative: a right or privilege • Ecclesiastical: having to do with church

5. Characterization 1. DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION - the writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like.2. INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION - the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him.

6. Chapters 14-19 • Edification: intellectual, spiritual or moral improvement • Obscure: not clearly expressed; hard to understand • Placid: pleasantly calm or peaceful • Acrimonious: bitter, stinging nature or speech • Corroborate: to make more certain; to double check • Countenance: appearance; face • Subpoena: summons for witnesses or evidence in court • Predicament: an unpleasant situation • Volition: the act of making a conscious decision • Wrathfully: with great anger, hatred or ill-will

7. Chapters 20-25 • Contraband: goods that are illegally imported or exported • Detachment: lack of interest or involvement • Indicted: formally charged with a crime • Temerity: reckless • Cynical: distrustful of human nature • Fatalistic: allowing what happens to happen • Heathen: someone who deliberately insults religion, God, or a way of life • Vehement: with force • Duress: constant threat • Squalid: foul and repulsive; neglected

8. Chapters 26-31 • Carcass: the body of a human or animal • Contraption: a mechanical device • Crooning: soft singing, humming • Eccentricities: peculiarities in conduct; things that are odd • Furtive: sneaky, secret- • Gait: manner of walking or talking • Notoriety: state of being known for something unfavorable • Recluse: someone living in seclusion • Staccato: disconnected, shortened sound • Subordinates: those who are lower in rank • Acquiescence: agreement or consent by silence • Connived: cooperated in secret; conspired • Eluded: avoided or escaped • Garishly: with excessive brightness • Reprimand: a severe reproof or rebuke

9. Chapters 29-31 • Acquiescence: agreement or consent by silence • Connived: cooperated in secret; conspired • Eluded: avoided or escaped • Garishly: with excessive brightness • Reprimand: a severe reproof or rebuke

10. FOR THE TEST • Benign: kind, gentle; inactive • Cleave: separate or cut with a tool • Articulate: express or state clearly • Lurched: to roll or pinch • Unsullied: spotless • Veneer: thin layer • Cherubic: angelic, having a sweet nature • Feeble: weak • Benevolent: kind