Vocab for To Kill a Mockingbird Flashcards

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Ecclesiastical

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Of or relating to the Christian church or its Gerlgy

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Interdict

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Forbit or forbid something

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3
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Jubliant

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Feeling or expressing great happiness or triumph

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4
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Propensities

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Inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way

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5
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Provocation

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Action or speech that makes someone annoyed are angry especially deliberately

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Rectitude

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Morally correct behavior or thinking

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7
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Trousseau

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French, clothes, household linen and other belonging collected by a bride

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8
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Umbrage

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Offense or annoyance

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9
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Acquiescence

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Reluctant acceptance of something without protest

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10
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Acrimonious

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Angry and bitter, typically a speech or debate

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11
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Ambidextrous

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Able to use the right and left hands equally well

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12
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Antagonize

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Cause someone to be hostile

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13
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Benignly

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Harmlessly

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14
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Dispel

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Make a doubt, feeling, or belief disappear

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15
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Elucidate

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To make something clear or explain

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Encumbered

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Restrict or burden in such a way that free action is difficult

17
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Impassive

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Not feeling or showing emotion

18
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Murmur

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A soft, indistinct sound, made by a person or group of people speaking quietly or at a distant

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Privy

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Sharing the knowledge of something secret, private

20
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Serenely

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Calm and untroubled manner