Vocabulary

Before we begin reading To Kill a Mockingbird, you will need to do vocabulary work. You will... Before we begin reading //To Kill a Mockingbird//, you will need to do vocabulary work. You will need to look up the words that are given to you, write the sentence that they're used in in the book, and give the part of speech (as used in the sentence) and definition. You will use Grolier to find the definitions. After you log-on, select dictionaries in the top right corner of the homepage. Then select the American Heritage Student Dictionary for your search. You will discover that this resource offers good definitions for your needs.

Sentence: Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest:through-out my early life, she was cold and there. ||=  ||= Serena, 3/11 ||
 * 2. **A wharf.
 * = C ||= Pg. ||= Word ||= Part of Speech/ Definition ||= Sentence ||= Student/ Due Date ||
 * = 4 ||= 37 ||= auspicious ||=  ||=   ||= Kevin, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 44 ||= melancholy ||=   ||=   ||= Kevin, 3/11 ||
 * = 5 ||= 46 ||= benign ||=  ||=   ||= Kevin, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 46 ||= chameleon ||=   ||=   ||= Kevin, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 46 ||= tacit ||= understood without being openly expressed ||=   ||= Jake, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 54 ||= asinine ||= foolish,unintelligent ||=   ||= Jake, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 54 ||= edification ||= moral improvement ||=   ||= Jake, 3/11 ||
 * = 6 ||= 61 ||= pilgrimage ||= a long sacred journey to ||=  ||= Jake, 3/11 ||
 * = 7 ||= 65 ||= ascertain ||= verb. find (something) out for certain; make sure of ||=  ||= Carly, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 66 ||= cleaved ||= verb. split or sever (something) ||=   ||= Carly, 3/11 ||
 * = 8 ||= 68 ||= unfathomable ||= adj. Difficult or impossible to understand; incomprehensible ||=  ||= Carly, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 68 ||= aberration ||= noun. a departure from what is normal, typically one that is unwelcome ||=   ||= Carly, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 71 ||= torso ||= The human body except for the head and limbs; the trunk. ||=   ||= Chole, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 72 ||= libel ||= A false publication in writing, print, signs, or pictures that damages a person's reputation. ||=   ||= Chole, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 72 ||= caricature ||= A picture or description of a person or thing in which certain distinctive features are greatly exaggerated or distorted to produce a comic effect ||=   ||= Chole, 3/11 ||
 * = 9 ||= 82 ||= changeling ||= In folklore, a child of the fairies secretly exchanged for a human child. ||=  ||= Chole, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 82 ||= sibling ||= brother or sister ||=   ||= Sam, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 83 ||= provocation ||= language or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry ||=   ||= Sam, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 85 ||= attire ||= clothing ||=   ||= Sam, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||=   ||= invective ||= insulting or abusive language ||=   ||= Sam, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 103 ||= analogous ||= Adj. Similar or parallel in certain ways
 * =  ||= 104 ||= hookah ||= Noun. A smoking pipe used chiefly in countries of the eastern Mediterranean. It has a long tube attached to a container of water that cools the smoke as it is drawn through.

Sentence: When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers- by who desired spiritual comfort. ||=  ||= Serena, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 104 ||= innate ||= **Adj. 1. **Possessed at birth; inborn
 * 2. **Existing as a basic or essential characteristic; inherent

Sentence: I was proceeding on the dim theory, aside for the innate attractiveness of such words, that if Atticus discovered I had picked them up at school he wouldn't make me go. ||=  ||= Serena, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 106 ||= jetty ||= Noun. **1. **A structure, as of stone, earth, and timbers, projecting into a body of water to affect the current or tide or to protect a harbor or shoreline.

Sentence: Finch's Landing consisted of 366 steps down a high bluff and ending in a jetty. ||=  ||= Serena, 3/11 || **1. **Noisily and stubbornly defiant. //**2. **Aggressively boisterous. ||=  ||= Wil, 3/11 || //v.////tr.// //v.////intr.//**1. **To speak clearly and distinctly.**<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">2. **To be jointed; form a joint ||=  ||= Wil, 3/11 || ​, 3/11 || To condescend to give or grant; vouchsafe ||=  ||= Amelia, 3/11 || <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">**2.** Of or suggestive of a wild animal; savage ||=  ||= Harry, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||=   ||= obstreperous ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">//adj.
 * = 10 ||= 95 ||= breastworks ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">//n.//A temporary, hastily constructed fortification, usually breast-high. ||=  ||= Wil, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 97 ||= erratically ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">//adj.//**<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">1. **Lacking a fixed course; wandering.**<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">2. **Irregular or uneven, as in quality or progress: //erratic work.// **<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">3. **Straying from the usual course in conduct or opinion; eccentric: //erratic behavior.//  ||=   ||= Wil, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 102 ||= articulate ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">//adj.//**<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">1. **Spoken clearly and distinctly
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">2. **Capable of speaking clearly and effectively
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">3. **Having the power of speech.**<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">4. **Consisting of sections connected by joints
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">1. **To utter (a speech sound or sounds) distinctly; enunciate
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">2. **To express verbally
 * = 9 ||= 103 ||= passe ||= <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"><span class="pg" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px;">//**–noun**// <span class="labset" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="ital-inline" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Georgia,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">//French// . the numbers 19 through 36 in roulette. ||=  ||= Liam, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 104 ||= apoplectic ||= <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"><span class="pg" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px;">//**–adjective**// <span class="var" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Also, of or pertaining to apoplexy. ||=   ||= Liam, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 104 ||= livid ||= <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"><span class="pg" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px;">//**–adjective**// <span class="dnindex" style="color: #7b7b7b; display: block; float: left; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 28px;">**1.** having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc., as the face, flesh, hands, or nails. ||=   ||= Liam, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 106 ||= umbrage ||= <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;"><span class="pg" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px;">//**–noun**// <span class="dnindex" style="color: #7b7b7b; display: block; float: left; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 28px;">**1.** offense; annoyance; displeasure: <span class="ital-inline" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Georgia,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">//to feel umbrage at a social snub; to give umbrage to someone; to take umbrage at someone's rudeness.//  ||=   ||= Liam, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 107 ||= palliation ||= //tr.v.// **<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">pal·li·at·ed **, **<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">pal·li·at·ing **, **<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">pal·li·ates ****<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">1. **To make (an offense or fault) seem less serious; help to excuse.**<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">2. **To ease the pain or force of; moderate ||=   ||= Stephanie, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 108 ||= contemporary ||= //adj.//**<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">1. **Living or occurring during the same period of time.**<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">2. **Current; modern: //n.// //pl.// **<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">con·tem·po·rar·ies ****<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">1. **A person living at the same time as another: **<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">2. **A person of the present age. ||=   ||= Stephanie, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 109 ||= reconnaissance ||= //n.//An inspection or exploration of an area, especially one made to gather information about the presence, arrangement, or activity of military forces. ||=   ||= Stephanie, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 109 ||= calomel ||= //n.//A white tasteless compound of mercury and chlorine, formerly used as a purgative and insecticide ||=   ||= Stephanie, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 112 ||= propensity ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">A natural tendency; an inclination ||=   ||= Tory, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 113 ||= infuriate ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">To make furious; enrage ||=   ||= Tory, 3/11 ||
 * = 12 ||= 117 ||= altercation ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">A noisy angry quarrel. ||=  ||= Tory, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 118 ||= bode ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">To wait or wait for. ||=   ||= Tory, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">120 ||= <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">habiliments ||= <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Type of clothing that is worn as a life a style or profession, etc. ||=   ||= <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Marquise, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 121 ||= asafetida ||= <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A lumpy type of gum that comes from Parsley and is sometimes used as medication. ||=   ||= <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Marquise, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 122 ||= rotogravure ||= <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A development process from an intaglio copper cylinder ||=   ||= <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Marquise, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 122 ||= ecclesiastical ||= <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Adjective used to describe something that pretains to the church ||=   ||= = Marquise =
 * =  ||= 122 ||= impediments ||= obstruction; hindrance; obstacle ||=   ||= Peter, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 122 ||= innate ||= existing in one from birth; inborn; native ||=   ||= Peter, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 122 ||= qualms ||= an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct compunction ||=   ||= Peter, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 124 ||= austere ||= severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding ||=   ||= Peter, 3/11 ||
 * = 13 ||= 130 ||= sluggish ||= Adj. Indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: // a sluggish disposition. // ||=  ||= Macie, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 130 ||= corset ||= Noun. Sometimes, **corsets.**  a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, esp. by women, to shape and support the body; stays. ||=   ||= Macie, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 130 ||= formidable ||= Adj. Of discouraging or awesome strength, size, difficulty, etc.; intimidating: // a formidable problem. // ||=   ||= Macie, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 131 ||= prerogative ||= a power, immunity, or the like restricted to a sovereign government or its representative: // The royal prerogative exempts the king from taxation. // ||=   ||= Macie, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 132 ||= obliquely ||= Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined. ||=   ||= Reed, 3/11 ||
 * = 14 ||=  ||= edification ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">Intellectual ||=   ||= Reed, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 142 ||= infallible ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">Incapable of failing; certain ||=   ||= Reed, 3/11 ||
 * = 15 ||= 148 ||= inaudible ||= Impossible to Hear ||=  ||= Reed, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 147 ||= ominous ||=   ||=   ||= Stephen, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 153 ||= oblivious ||=   ||=   ||= Stephen, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 156 ||= acquiescence ||=   ||=   ||= Stephen, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 156 ||= uncouth ||=   ||=   ||= Stephen, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 156 ||= aggregation ||= <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">a whole formed by combining several elements. ||=   ||= Zach, 3/11 ||
 * = 16 ||= 161 ||= akimbo ||= <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">In or into a position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward ||=  ||= Zach, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 162 ||= elucidate ||= to make something clear ||=   ||= Zach, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||=   ||= fey ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;">giving an impression of vague unworldliness ||=   ||= Zach, 3/11 ||
 * = 17 ||=  ||= deign ||= To think it appropriate to one's dignity; condescend:
 * =  ||= 174 ||= acrimonious ||= Bitter and sharp in language or tone; rancorous ||=   ||= Amelia, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||=   ||= corroborating ||= To support or confirm by new evidence; make certain ||=   ||= Amelia, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||=   ||= congenital ||= Existing before or from the time of birth: ||=   ||= Amelia, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 180 ||= complacency ||= A feeling of self satisfaction ||=   ||= Hugo, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 180 ||= ambidextrous ||= Can use both hands to do activities involving them ||=   ||= Hugo, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||=   ||= traumas ||= Something that jars the mind ||=   ||= Hugo, 3/11 ||
 * = 18 ||= 182 ||= mollify ||= To ease anger ||=  ||= Hugo, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 181 ||= lavations ||= noun <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;">the process of washing. ||=   ||= Luc, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 186 ||= chiffarobe ||= not available ||=   ||= Luc, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 192 ||= exodus ||= <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;">noun-a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people ||=   ||= Luc, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 200 ||= candid ||= adj-<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;">frank; outspoken; open and sincere ||=   ||= Luc, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 198 ||= expunge ||=   ||=   ||= Lucy, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 195 ||= volition ||=   ||=   ||= Lucy, 3/11 ||
 * = 20 ||= 207 ||= cynical ||=  ||=   ||= Lucy, 3/11 ||
 * = 21 ||= 210 ||= exhilarate ||=  ||=   ||= Lucy, 3/11 ||
 * = 22 ||= 217 ||= feral ||= //adj.// **<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">1. ****<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">a. **Existing in a wild or untamed state.**<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">b. **Having returned to an untamed state from domestication.
 * = 23 ||= 221 ||= furtive ||= //adj// **1.** Done in a quiet or sly way, so as not to be noticed; sneaky ||=  ||= Harry, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 223 ||= vehement ||= //adj.// **<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">1. **Marked by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervent **<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">2. **Marked by or full of vigor or energy; strong ||=   ||= Harry, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 224 ||= wrath ||= //noun// **1.**Very great anger; rage. ||=   ||= Harry, 3/11 ||
 * = 24 ||= 233 ||= impertinence ||=  ||=   ||= Merrill, 3/11 ||
 * =  ||= 235 ||= bovine ||=   ||=   ||= Merrill, 3/11 ||
 * = 28 ||= 262 ||= lichen ||=  ||=   ||= Merrill, 3/11 ||
 * 30 || 276 || connive ||  ||   || Merrill, 3/11 ||