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To Kill a Mocking Bird
Question | Answer |
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Taciturn | habitually reserved and uncommunicative |
nebulous | hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused |
condescend | to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position. |
entailment | debt |
contemptuous | feeling hatred; scornful |
contentious | tending to argue |
disapprobation | disapproval |
auspicious | promising success |
scuppernong | amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States |
apoplectic | pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy |
philippic | a strong verbal denunciation. The term comes from the orations of Demosthenes against Philip of Macedonia in the fourth century. |
umbrage | offense, annoyance, displeasure |
palliation | something that eases without curing |
venerable | commanding respect because of great age or dignity |
elucidate | to make lucid/clear |
unobtrusive | unnoticed |
acrimonious | stinging or bitter in nature, speech, behavior |
mollified | to soften in feeling/temper |
ex cathedra | from the seat of authority/with autahority |
adamant | utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion |
vehement | passionate |
impertinence | unmannerly intrusion or presuption |
bovine | of or pertaining to the subfamily bovinae which includes cattle buffalo and kudus |
spurious | not genuine, authentic or true |