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Ch. 12-16 Vocab
To Kill a Mockingbird
Question | Answer |
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altercation | a loud quarrel |
melancholy | sad; depressed; thoughtful |
denunciation | a public announcement of disapproval |
formidable | inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder |
prerogative | an exclusive right or privilege held by a person or group |
caste | a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank, profession, or wealth |
futility | uselessness |
morbid | psychologically unhealthy |
elucidate | to make clear or plain; to clarify |
unobtrusive | not noticeable; inconspicuous |
Sit-down strikes | (Michigan) sit-down strike of 1936–1937, in which auto workers sat down on the job for forty days in protest for union recognition. |
Octagon Soap | was a harsh lye soap intended primarily for laundry, but often used as an all |
Garden of Gethsemane | was where Jesus went to pray on the night before his crucifixion. It was in this garden that he was arrested by Roman soldiers. |
Prohibition | the period (1920–1933) during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was in force in the United States. |
Bootleggers | people who make, sell, and/or transport alcoholic liquor for sale illegally. |
The War Between the States | the American Civil War (1861–1865). |
Reconstruction | was the period of time, roughly between 1867 and 1877, when the Southern states were reorganized and reestablished after the Civil War. |
Ku Klux Klan | a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism. |
Braxton Bragg | the commander of the Western Confederate Army during the Civil War. Bragg led a less |
Mennonite | a member of an Anabaptist church characterized particularly by simplicity of life, pacifism, and nonresistance. |
Venue | the locality where a crime is committed or a cause of action occurs. It may also be the locality from which a jury is called and in which a trial is held. |
Change the venue | In certain cases, the court has power to direct the trial to be held in a different county from that where the crime was committed. |