To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 22 Vocabulary

Aggravate	to annoy or anger someone
Appeal	an earnest or urgent request
Cynical	distrustful of human nature
Diction	clarity when speaking; choice of words
Fatalistic	resigning to fate; allowing what needs to happen to happen
Fret	to worry
Heathen	someone who deliberately insults religion, God, or a way of life
Ruefully	remorsefully; regretfully
Credibility	the quality of inspiring belief
Furtive	done by stealth; surreptitious; sly