| assuaged | to ease or satisfy; make less severe |
| apothecary | druggist; pharmacist |
| strictures | strict advice |
| dictum | an authoritative pronouncement |
| taciturn | habitually quiet, uncommunicative |
| unsullied | unsoiled, not dirtied |
| epic | heroic |
| repertoire | assortment of skills |
| vapid | lacking interest; flat |
| malevolent | evil |
| beadle | a town constable or minor official |
| foray | a sudden military advance; a venturing out |
| indigenous | native to |
| entailment | an amount of money that is legally set aside for one purpose |
| mortification | embarassment |
| sojourn | stay |
| expounding | seriously explaining |
| erratic | uneven, unpredictable |
| iniquities | sins |
| contemptuous | hateful and disrespectful |
| contentious | argumentative |
| expansively | talkatively |
| misdemeanor | a minor crime |
| disapprobation | disapproval |
| severed | cut off |
| auspicious | marked by success; favorable |
| palette | a range of colors, usually of paints on a hand-held mixing board |
| melancholy | extremely sad |
| quelling | calming down |
| benign | harmless, not evil |
| tacit | unspoken but agreed upon and understood |
| magisterial | royal, majestic |
| cordiality | friendliness, hospitality |
| inquisitive | curious |
| asinine | stupid |
| gaped | stared with mouth hanging open |
| quibbling | arguing over trivial matters |
| malignant | evil, harmful |
| perpetual | never-ending |
| aberrations | departures from the normal or expected |
| touchous | sensitive, easily irritated |
| bade | (past tense of “bid”) ordered |
| quelled | stopped, ended, put out |
| perplexity | confusion |
| inordinately | exceeding reasonable limits |
| ingenuous | unsophisticated |
| guilelessness | plain, open honesty, without any tricks |
| mortify | to embarrass |
| obstreperous | noisily defiant |
| invective | angry, abusive, complaining language |
| tartly | sharply |
| articulate | speaking clearly |
| jubilantly | joyfully and triumphantly |
| livid | extremely angry |
| philippic | a verbal denunciation characterized by invective |
| rectitude | moral properness |
| tirade | angry flow of words |
| undulate | to move in waves |
| propensities | inclinations to something |
| cantankerous | cranky and argumentative |
To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary Words
January 24, 2020