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To Kill Mockingbird
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vapid | lacking liveliness, briskness or force |
| Erratic | characterized by lack of consistency, regularity or uniformity |
| Sojourn | a temporary stay |
| Tyranny | oppressive power |
| Yield | to give up possession of |
| Benign | of a mild character; kind |
| Malignant | evil in nature, influence or effect |
| Perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (as a crime); commit |
| Ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| Inconspicuous | not really noticeable |
| Altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| Interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| Expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| Pensive | suggestive of sad thoughtfulness |
| Temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition; recklessness |
| Tacit | expressed or carried on without word or speech |
| Feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast; savage |
| Adamant | unshakable or immovable, esp. opposition; inflexible |
| Brevity | expression in few words; conciseness |
| impertinent | not restrained within due or proper bounds; rude |
| perpetual | occurring continually; indefinitely; continuous; everlasting |
| Amiable | having a friendly, sociable and congenial disposition; friendly |
| Statute | a law enacted by the legislative branch of government |
| Melancholy | depression of sprites; a pensive mood; depressed |
| Tentative | not fully worked out or developed; uncertain |
| Infallible | incapable of error; perfect |
| Predicament | a difficult, perplexing or trying situation, condition or state |
| Murmur | to talk quietly or under your breath |
| Contentious | always ready to argue; quarrelsome |
| Squalor | filthy, wretched condition or quality |
| Kin | a group of people of common ancestry; family |
| Stolid | having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive |
| Inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |