vocabulary in To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 1
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apothecary | show 🗑
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show | to assuage is to lessen or to calm. Therefore, if Jem's fears about being able to play football were assuaged, it means that he no longer feared that he wouldn't be able to play the sport.
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show | a minor city official, lower in rank than either a sheriff or a policeman, whose main duties revolve around preserving order at various civil functions such as trials and town hall meetings.
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brethren | show 🗑
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show | in this case, a formal statement of principle
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domiciled | show 🗑
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show | When you make a foray, you go somewhere or do something that is unusual or not normal for you. It was certainly not Jem's usual behavior to go near the Radley house; thus, doing so was a foray for him.
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show | slaves
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show | powerless. Simon's fury and anger regarding the Civil War would certainly have been impotent because there would have been nothing he could have done about it.
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show | To be impudent is to be shamelessly bold, as if you don't care what anyone thinks about you. Since the Haverfords did something illegal in front of witnesses, Lee rightfully describes them as impudent.
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malevolent | show 🗑
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show | members of a branch of a Protestant Christian denomination.
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picket | show 🗑
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show | devotion to religious duties and practices
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show | a predilection is a preference, or a preferred way of doing something. Thus, the Radley's preferred way of spending a Sunday afternoon was to keep the doors closed and not receive visitors
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repertoire was vapid | show 🗑
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scold | show 🗑
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show | a jarlike container to spit into; usually used to spit tobacco juice into.
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show | conditions or rules
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taciturn | show 🗑
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unsullied | show 🗑
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show | a portico or porch with a roof
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