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TKAM
quiz 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| assauge | to make less severe or harsh |
| taciturn | naturally quiet, uncommunicative |
| predilection | preference |
| stricture | comment or remark |
| condecend | to behave as if one is conscious od decending from a superoir position |
| entailment | to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence |
| onslaught | an assault or attack |
| fraught | filled or overcome with |
| fractious | unruly |
| disaprobation | disapproval |
| auspicious | promising success |
| melancholy | gloomy state of mind |
| perpetual | lasts forever |
| vigil | long waiting |
| guilelessness | plain, open honesty, without tricks |
| rudiments | principles or beginnings of a subject |
| obstreperous | noisly defiant |
| articulate | speaking clearly |
| recitude | moral properness |
| interdict | ordering forbidding some action |
| tirade | angry flow of words |
| oppressive | burdensome |
| viscous | trick and slow following |
| cantankerous | cranky and arguementative |
| author's name? | Nelle Haper lee |
| What objects did Jem and Scout find in the radley oak tree? | gray twine, 2 soap figurines, trinkets, 2 pieces of gum |
| Why did scout fear the world was coming to an end? | because it was snowing |
| what did Atticus mean when he said " you've perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard"? | he means you have created a creature that looks like Mr. avery |
| jean louise finch (scout) | narrator of book and tomboy little girl (main character) |
| Jem | scout's brother |
| atticus | the childrens widowed father, a lawyer |
| Dill | Jem and scout's friend who visit's each summer and is very imginative |
| Ms. Maudie | a neighbor, down to earth friend, and someone the kids look up to |
| Cal | the finches' black housekeeper, stern and devoted toward kids |
| Boo radley | mysterious recluse neighbor |
| uncle jack finch | atticus's brother, a doctor, lighthearted |
| Aunt Alexandra | Atticus's sister, a girlie girl |
| Mrs. henry lafayette Dubose | old sick woman who is a neighbor |
| Ms. stephanie | local gossiper, neighbor |
| Ms. caroline | scout's first grade teacher who is inexperienced |
| Walter cunningham | poverty farmer, one of atticus's clients |
| young walter cunningham | his son,scout's classmate, she taunts him for his eating habits |
| Cecil jacobs | scout's classmate, taunts scout for fathers defense of tom robinson |
| assauge | to make less severe or harsh |
| taciturn | naturally quiet, uncommunicative |
| predilection | preference |
| stricture | comment or remark |
| condecend | to behave as if one is conscious od decending from a superoir position |
| entailment | to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence |
| onslaught | an assault or attack |
| fraught | filled or overcome with |
| fractious | unruly |
| disaprobation | disapproval |
| auspicious | promising success |
| melancholy | gloomy state of mind |
| perpetual | lasts forever |
| vigil | long waiting |
| guilelessness | plain, open honesty, without tricks |
| rudiments | principles or beginnings of a subject |
| obstreperous | noisly defiant |
| articulate | speaking clearly |
| recitude | moral properness |
| interdict | ordering forbidding some action |
| tirade | angry flow of words |
| oppressive | burdensome |
| viscous | trick and slow following |
| cantankerous | cranky and arguementative |
| author's name? | Nelle Haper lee |
| What objects did Jem and Scout find in the radley oak tree? | gray twine, 2 soap figurines, trinkets, 2 pieces of gum |
| Why did scout fear the world was coming to an end? | because it was snowing |
| what did Atticus mean when he said " you've perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard"? | he means you have created a creature that looks like Mr. avery |
| jean louise finch (scout) | narrator of book and tomboy little girl (main character) |
| Jem | scout's brother |
| atticus | the childrens widowed father, a lawyer |
| Dill | Jem and scout's friend who visit's each summer and is very imginative |
| Ms. Maudie | a neighbor, down to earth friend, and someone the kids look up to |
| Cal | the finches' black housekeeper, stern and devoted toward kids |
| Boo radley | mysterious recluse neighbor |
| uncle jack finch | atticus's brother, a doctor, lighthearted |
| Aunt Alexandra | Atticus's sister, a girlie girl |
| Mrs. henry lafayette Dubose | old sick woman who is a neighbor |
| Ms. stephanie | local gossiper, neighbor |
| Ms. caroline | scout's first grade teacher who is inexperienced |
| Walter cunningham | poverty farmer, one of atticus's clients |
| young walter cunningham | his son,scout's classmate, she taunts him for his eating habits |
| Cecil jacobs | scout's classmate, taunts scout for fathers defense of tom robinson |