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Kill a Mockingbird
to kill a mockingbird vocab 5/5/10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acrimonious | sharp or bitter in feeling, language, or manner |
| assuage | to ease; to make less painful; to calm |
| cantankerous | contrary; disagreeable; quarrelsome |
| complacency | the state of being self-satisfied, especially when accompanied by awareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| condescended | to come down voluntarily to the level of inferiors |
| eccentric | departing from the established norm, model, or rule |
| entrusted | given over to another for care or protection |
| evasion | act of avoiding |
| fanatical | possessed or driven by excessive zeal |
| inaudible | unable to be heard |
| inconspicuous | not readily noticeable |
| indigenous | native |
| ingenuous | without sophistication; artless; innocent |
| irked | annoyed; bothered |
| malevolent | exhibiting or having ill-will; malicious |
| peril | danger |
| perplexity | the condition of being puzzled |
| quibbling | making petty distinctions or irrelevant observations |
| teetered | moved unsurely in a see-sawing motion |
| tyranny | extreme harshness or severity; rigor |