To Kill A Mockingbird Vocabulary
Chapters 1-4
as·suage
[uh-sweyj, uh-sweyzh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA
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–verb (used with object), -suaged, -suag·ing.
1.
to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to
assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
2.
to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger.
3.
to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage
her anger.
dic·tum
[dik-tuhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -ta
[-tuh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA
Pronunciation, -tums.
1.
an authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion.
2.
a saying; maxim.
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chat·tel
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–noun
1.
Law. a movable article of personal property.
2.
any article of tangible property other than land, buildings, and
other things annexed to land.
3.
a slave.
tac·i·turn
[tas-i-turn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1.
inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in
conversation.
2.
dour, stern, and silent in expression and manner.
vap·id
[vap-id] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1.
lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat:
vapid tea.
2.
without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious: a vapid party; vapid
conversation
pre·di·lec·tion
[pred-l-ek-shuhn, preed-] Pronunciation Key -
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–noun
a tendency to think favorably of something in particular;
partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
fliv·ver
[fliv-er] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1.
Older Slang. an automobile, esp. one that is small,
inexpensive, and old.
2.
Slang. something of unsatisfactory quality or inferior grade.
neb·u·lous
[neb-yuh-luhs] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA
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–adjective
1.
hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of
the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
2.
cloudy or cloudlike.
3.
of or resembling a nebula or nebulae; nebular.
cov·ey
[kuhv-ee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -eys.
1.
a brood or small flock of partridges or similar birds.
2.
a group, set, or company.
en·tail
[v. en-teyl; n. en-teyl, en-teyl] Pronunciation Key - Show
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–verb (used with object)
1.
to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence: a loss
entailing no regret.
2.
to impose as a burden: Success entails hard work.
3.
to limit the passage of (a landed estate) to a specified line of
heirs, so that it cannot be alienated, devised, or bequeathed.
4.
to cause (anything) to descend to a fixed series of possessors.
–noun
5.
the act of entailing.
6.
the state of being entailed.
7.
any predetermined order of succession, as to an office.
8.
something that is entailed, as an estate.
9.
the rule of descent settled for an estate.
flint·y
[flin-tee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective, flint·i·er, flint·i·est.
1.
composed of, containing, or resembling flint, esp. in hardness.
2.
unyielding; unmerciful; obdurate: a flinty heart.
tru·ant
[troo-uhnt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1.
a student who stays away from school without permission.
2.
a person who shirks or neglects his or her duty.
–adjective
3.
absent from school without permission.
4.
neglectful of duty or responsibility; idle.
di·min·u·tive
[di-min-yuh-tiv] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA
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–adjective
1.
small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train
layout.
2.
Grammar. pertaining to or productive of a form denoting
smallness, familiarity, affection, or triviality, as the suffix -let,
in droplet from drop.
–noun
scup·per·nong
(skŭp'ər-nông', -nŏng') Pronunciation Key
n.
See muscadine.
A cultivated variety of the muscadine grape with sweet
yellowish fruit.
A wine made from this grape