To Kill A Mockingbird (chapters 1-6) vocab

Question 1

Apothecary

Answer 1

One who prepares and sells medicine

Question 2

Assuaged

Answer 2

To make less severe

Question 3

Indigenous

Answer 3

Occurring of living naturally in an area

Question 4

Malevolent

Answer 4

Having or exhibiting hatred

Question 5

Mortification

Answer 5

A feeling of shame, of humiliation

Question 6

Piety

Answer 6

Religious devotion and reverence to god

Question 7

Sojourn

Answer 7

A brief temporary stay

Question 8

unsullied

Answer 8

Spotlessly clean and fresh

Question 9

Vexations

Answer 9

Irritations

Question 10

Wallowing

Answer 10

Heavily indulging in; rolling in

Question 12

Amiable

Answer 12

Pleasured; good-natured

Question 13

Auspicious

Answer 13

Promising success

Question 14

Contentious

Answer 14

Tending to fight

Question 15

Dispensation

Answer 15

A special allowance of privilege

Question 16

Expansively

Answer 16

With a willingness to talk, share

Question 17

Fractious

Answer 17

Inclined to make trouble; unruly

Question 18

Persevere

Answer 18

To continue in a course of action, even through difficulty

Question 19

Tranquility

Answer 19

State of calm, peacefulness, serenity

Question 20

Tyranny

Answer 20

A government in which a single person assumes absolute control

Question 21

Aloof

Answer 21

Distant; unfeeling

Question 22

Benevolence

Answer 22

Inclination to perform charitable acts

Question 23

Benign

Answer 23

Compassionate; incapable of causing harm

Question 24

Bewilderment

Answer 24

The condition of being confused

Question 25

Cherub

Answer 25

a winged, chubby angel

Question 26

Ensuing

Answer 26

Following immediately afterward

Question 27

Morbid

Answer 27

Gruesome, gloomy, or dark

Question 28

Obliged

Answer 28

Under force or necessity

Question 29

Prowess

Answer 29

Superior skill or ability; strength or courage

Question 30

Tacit

Answer 30

Unspoken; understood without being expressed

Question 31

Suffix - Ical

Answer 31

of or relating to

Question 32

aesthetic

Answer 32

a particular theory or conception of beauty or art

Question 33

icons

Answer 33

a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere

Question 34

presumptuous

Answer 34

full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission

Question 35

Placid

Answer 35

peacefully free of interruption or disturbance

Question 36

perils

Answer 36

exposure to the risk of being injured, destroyed, or lost

Question 37

apathetic

Answer 37

affected by, characterized by, or displaying apathy