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To Kill a Mocking Bird
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |