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Mocking Bird list #1
To Kill a Mocking Bird vocabulary list #1, Dombrowski
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Assuage | (v) to make milder or less severe; ease; mitigate |
| Apothecary | (n) a druggist; a pharmacist |
| Taciturn | (adj) inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation |
| Vapid | (adj) lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat |
| Malevolent | (adj) wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious |
| Predilection | (n) a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference |
| Nebulous | (adj) hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused |
| Illicit | (adj) disapproved of or not permitted for moral or ethical reasons |
| Entailment | (n) an act that limits the passage of (a landed estate) to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be alienated, devised, or bequeathed |
| Dispensation | (n) something that is distributed or given out |
| iniquity | (n) gross injustice or wickedness |
| flinty | (adj) unyielding; unmerciful; obdurate |
| contemptuous | (adj) showing or expressing contempt or disdain |
| contentious | (adj tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome |
| diminutive | (adj) small; little; tiny |