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T.K.A.M.B vocab
To kill a mockingbird Vocab 3
Question | Answer |
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Acquiescence | the act of acquiescing : the state of being acquiescent |
Acrimonious | caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
Altercation | a noisy heated angry dispute; also : noisy controversy |
Bode | past usually bided : to wait for -- used chiefly in the phrase bide one's time |
Caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
Congenial | having the same nature, disposition, or tastes |
Corset | a usually close-fitting and often laced medieval jacket |
Ecclesiastic | of or relating to a church especially as an established institution |
Elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
Fey | fated to die |
Habiliment | characteristic apparatus : trappings |
Impedimenta | APPURTENANCES, EQUIPMENT |
Infallible | incapable of error |
Myopic | a condition in which the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects |
Obliquely | neither perpendicular nor parallel |
Placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
Prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege |
Qualms | a sudden attack of illness, faintness, or nausea |
Resignation | the quality or state of being resigned |
Rotogravure | photograuve |
speculate | to meditate on or ponder a subject |
tedious | tiresome because of length or dullness |
uncouth | not known or not familiar to one : seldom experienced |
venerable | deserving to be venerated |