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TKAM Ch. 22-26

To Kill A Mockingbird

QuestionAnswer
impassive revealing no emotion; expressionless
credibility believability
statute a law enacted by a legislature
vehement characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion
sordid morally degraded
apprehension fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future
impertinence disrespectfulness
brevity the quality of being brief in duration; concise
demise death; the end of existence
recluse a person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion
Mrunas a tribe in Africa. At one of Aunt Alexandra’s missionary society meetings, Mrs. Merriweather describes how sorry she feels for these people and how J. Grimes Everett is the only one who will help the Mrunas.
Birmingham a city in Central Alabama.
Mrs. Roosevelt refers to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), wife of President Franklin D.Roosevelt. The reference “tryin’ to sit with ’em” in the novel refers to the 1939 incident in which Eleanor Roosevelt attended a meeting for the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. She defied state authorities by sitting in the center aisle, between whites and blacks, after police told her she was violating segregation laws by sitting with black people.
Roly-poly also called a pill bug, or any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax allowing it to roll into a ball.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) the Nazi dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Holy-roller a member of a small religious sect that expresses devotion by shouting and moving around during worship services.
Uncle Natchell the cartoon mascot for a fertilizer product called Natural Chilean Nitrate of Soda. Many of the advertisements for this product were in comic strip or story form. In the novel, Little Chuck Little thinks one of these advertising “stories” is an actual current event.
Elmer Davis a journalist and CBS radio commentator who went on to head the Office of War Information.
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