Name _____________________
Date ___________ Period _____
To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapters 16-19 study guide
I. Definitions – Match the correct vocabulary term to its definition.
1. _____________________________ (v.) make clear and (more) comprehensible
2. _____________________________ (n.) motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles
3. _____________________________ (v.) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
4. _____________________________ (n./adj.) exact opposition
5. _____________________________ (v.) twisted (especially in pain or struggle)
6. _____________________________ (adj.) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
7. _____________________________ (adj.) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
8. _____________________________ (v.) look down on with disdain
9. _____________________________ (n.) movement downward
10. _____________________________ (adj.) characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners
11. _____________________________ (adj.) completely wanting or lacking
12. _____________________________ (v) meet formally
13. _____________________________ (n.) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment
14. _____________________________ (adj.) equally skillful with each hand
15. _____________________________ (adj.) showing lack of emotional involvement
II. Sentence Completion and Context Clues: Use the context clue(s) to determine which word from
your list best completes each sentence. Write your answer neatly on the line. Spelling and
capitalization DO count!
1. “Mayella’s face _______________________, and I was afraid that she would cry again.
2. “About your writing with your left hand, are you ________________________________, Mr. Ewell?”
3. “We’ve done business for years and years, and Mr. Finch is always ___________________________ to
everybody.
4. “He ____________________Negroes, won’t have one near him.”
5. “As a rule, a recess meant a general _______________________, but today people weren’t moving.”
6. “I was too _____________________________about Mayella to run after him.”
7. “If you had a clear ________________________________, why were you scared?”
8. “The witness made a hasty _______________________________from the stand and ran smack into Atticus,
who had risen to question him.”
9. “Atticus’s voice had lost its comfortableness; he was speaking in his arid, _____________________
professional voice.”
10. “Here, Judge Taylor glanced sharply at the witness and must have decided his speculations were
_______________________of evil intent, for he subsided sleepily.”
III. Synonyms and Antonyms: Provide a term from this week’s list on the blank provided.
1. erase - _____________________________________
2. without- ______________________________________
3. apart- ________________________________________
SYNONYMS ONLY
4. congregate- _____________________________________
5. polite - ______________________________________
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6. arrival- _____________________________________
7. smoothed- ______________________________________
8. similar- ________________________________________
ANTONYMS ONLY
9. ascent- ____________________________________
10. make confusing- ______________________________________
PRACTICE EXERCISE
In the following sentences that tell the story of an ill-fated shopping trip, write the
correct two, too, or to in the blank spaces.
1. The other day I went _________ the post office.
2. While I was there I bought a shirt and _________ pairs of shoes.
3. I went ________ the cash register _________ pay and to have the items put in a
bag.
4. As I was leaving the store the bag broke open because it was _________ thin.
5. _________ store employees ran over _________ help me but it was ________
late.