Vocabulary To Kill a Mockingbird

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What does connivance mean?

1. threats, violence
2. make disappear
3. willingness to be secretely involved in an immoral or illegal act
4. present from birth

Choose the suitable definition for sundry:

1. present from birth
2. free someone from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty
3. envy someone for the possession of something
4. various items not important enough to be mentioned individually

Which of the terms means fractious?

1. favourable, auspicious
2. wrongdoing
3. tacit
4. inclined to make trouble

What is a synonym of begrudge?

1. envy
2. make disappear
3. free smb from a criminal charge
4. look down on someone

Which of the following terms is a synonym of vexation?

1. temerity
2. annoyance
3. aberration
4. misdemeanour

What does predilection mean?

1. disposition in favour of something
2. hindrance, obstacle
3. an uneasy feeling of doubt
4. great embarrassment, shame

What is the meaning of apoplectic?

1. a deviation from the normal
2. annoyance, offence
3. furious, overcome with anger
4. death obsessed

What is a synonym of to irk?

1. to hesitate
2. to irritate, annoy
3. to accost
4. to make clear

What does to quell mean?

1. to put down forcibly
2. to free someone from a criminal charge
3. to make disappear
4. to look down on someone

Which term means favourable?

1. succinct
2. auspicious
3. perpetual
4. erratic

Military regimes generally have no ........................ about controlling the press.

1. duress
2. disapprobation
3. qualms
4. temerity

The judge posed no ................................... to the detailed questioning of the witnesses.

1. mortification
2. impediments
3. prejudice
4. tentative

The shooting of the mad dog was just .......................................... the future events in the novel.

1. foreshadowing
2. accosting
3. perpetuating
4. elucidating

Calpurnia gave Scout a tremendous .................... against her criticism of Walter Cunningham at the dinner table.

1. philippic
2. apoplectic
3. elucidation
4. mortification

Atticus Finch wanted to ..................... the mystery regarding Mayella Ewell's rape.

1. dispell
2. elucidate
3. acquit
4. condescend

Bob Ewell took ........................... at Tom Robinson's remarks regarding Mayella.

1. aloof
2. discretion
3. disapprobation
4. umbrage

Mayella Ewell was .......................... when Atticus called her 'm'am'.

1. livid
2. placid
3. rueful
4. austere

Jem and Dill were ...................... by Scout's girly behaviour.

1. peeved
2. philippic
3. alleged
4. quelled

When the children were on the sidewalk in front of Miss Maudie's, Mr Avery ...................... them.

1. irked
2. mortified
3. begrudged
4. accosted

how do you spell the word that means constraints, violence used to coerce someone into doing something against their will?

How do you spell the word that means to free someone from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty?

How do you spell the word that means cool and distant?

How do you spell the word that means regretful?

How do you spell the word that means absolute, complete?

How do you spell the word that means severe or strict in manner or attitude?

Standing up to Miss Caroline was just a ............................ of her reckless methods.

1. vexation
2. aberration
3. denunciation
4. predilection

How do you spell the word that means a deviation from the normal?

How do you spell the word that means moral disapproval, condemnation?

How do you spell the word that means briefly and clearly expressed?

How do you spell the word that means unpredictable?