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T.K.A.M.B vocab
To kill a mockingbird Vocab 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |