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To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary
Directions: I give the part of speech. Look up the definition of each word. Also, record all related parts of speech; you might need to use them on the assessment. (The assessment will include a word bank that includes only one form of the word.) Make up a sentence using one form of the word.
1. Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adj
Definition: powerless; lacking in power, strength, or vigor: helpless
Related forms: (adv) impotently
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2. She married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adj.
Definition: temperamentally disinclined to talk; quiet; not conversationally inclined
Related forms: (noun) taciturnity
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3. They were imprudent enough to do it in front of three witnesses.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adj.
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4. The class murmured apprehensively, should she (Miss Caroline) prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities
indigenous to that region.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adj.
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5. I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): verb, present progressive tense
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6. Entailment was only a part of Mr. Cunningham’s vexations.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): noun, plural
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7. Jem’s free dispensation of my pledge irked me.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): noun
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8. Staying behind to advise Atticus of Calpurnia’s iniquities was worth it.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): noun, plural
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9. He (Burris Ewell) gave a short, contemptuous snort….and slouched leisurely to the door.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adj.
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10. She (Calpurnia) had at last seen the error of her fractious ways.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adj.
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11. Common folk judiciously allowed them privileges.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adv.
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12. Jem arbitrated and awarded me the first push.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): verb, past tense
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13. (You were) putting his life’s history on display for the edification of the neighborhood.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): noun
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14. For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophet in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter.
We had two weeks of the coldest weather since 1885.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adj.
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15. He disliked my ingenuous diversions.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adj.
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16. Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with tea sets.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): noun
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17. You never told me to use words like that except under extreme provocation.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): noun
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18. Providence was kind enough to burn down that old mausoleum of mine.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): noun
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19. Once she heard Jem refer to our father as “Atticus” and her reaction was apoplectic.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adj.
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20. I had long had my eye on that baton; It was bedecked with tinsel and sequins.
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21. We were followed up the sidewalk by a philippic on our family’s degeneration.
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22. After one altercation, when Jem hollered “It’s time you started bein’ a girl and acted right!” I burst into tears and fled to Calpurnia.
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23. I realized this was not a tactful question.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adj.
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24. I did likewise with no qualms.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): noun, plural
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25. Given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): noun
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26. Against the fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson had Miss Maudie deigned to permit a geranium on her premises. People said they were Mayella Ewell’s.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): verb, past tense
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27. Mollified, Mayella gave Atticus a final terrified glance.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): adj.
Definition of mollify (verb): to soothe in temper or disposition
Related forms: (noun) mollification; (adj) mollified
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28. He distilled it for me to mean that Judge Taylor looked lazy but wasn’t.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): verb, past tense
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29. The way that man called him “boy” and sneered at him…it just makes me sick.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): verb, past tense
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30. She was no child hiding stolen contraband.
Part of speech (as used in sentence): noun
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