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MB Vocab Chs 21-23
Vocabulary from To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapters 21-23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adamant | insisting, inflexible |
| colleague | co-worker in a profession |
| credibility | believability, the quality of someone you can trust |
| diction | the pronunciation and choice of words |
| exhilarated | excited |
| feral | wild like an animal, crazy |
| fret | to worry, be anxious |
| furtive | sneaky, stealthy, secretive |
| grudge | to hold a negative attitude or feeling against someone because of a past wrong |
| relenting | less severe, similar to "mollified" |
| reluctant | unwilling, hesitant to do something |
| remorse | guilt, feeling bad about something wrong that happened |
| resentment | similar to "grudge", a negative feeling about a past wrong |
| sordid | dirty, immoral, wrong |
| statute | law |
| stolidly | unemotionally |
| tactics | strategies, approaches to solving a problem |
| wryly | sarcastically, bitterly amused tone of voice |