To Kill a Mockingbird vocab Chapters 11-20

Chapter 11

wrathful, ruthless, interrogation, melancholy

vicious, apoplectic, decreed, miniature, sequins

obscurely, scuppernong, contradict, arthritic

philippic, degeneration, premise, umbrage, assessment, acquisition, grimy, rectitude, guff, tranquil, disposition, interdict, flailing, rectitude

shrieking, skulked, palliation, geological, inaudible

contemporaries, inexcusable, vacated, relic, antagonized, compassion, essence

entitled, reconnaissance, calomel, delicately, padded

oppressive, tirade, commence, glistened, protruded, nether

undulate, viscous

emerged, propensities, infuriated, usage

plough (ploughing), moats

devoid, detached, blood-curdling

morphine, addict, escapade, beholden, distraction, bailing, cantankerous

 

Chapter 12

inconsistent, appalling, pestering, consulted, alien, altercation, fret, boded

compensation, emerge, barnacles, diligently, frivolous

trooped, persisting, habiliments

chunks, denoted, asafoetida, clad

contemptuously, indignantly, amusement, mass, contentious, haughty

unceiled, proclaimed, rotogravure, ecclesiastical, impediments, garish, indecision, ethics, innate

subdued, rumble, artillery, lingered, decree, murmur, Deity

forthright, denunciation, austere, confronted, preoccupy, erected, spite

deposited, propelled, customary, voile

tedious

thunderstruck, dawned, novel

aggravates, phantom, enarmored, uncompromising

 

Chapter 13

permanence, chauffeur, tidiness

sluggish, extract, giddy, flared, formidable, dispelled, affirmative

delicacies, sustain, Amanuensis, objective, prerogative, morbid, flighty, heredity

preoccupation, obliquely, thrived, nimble-wittedness, tranquility, dispatched, confines, devoid, sprawled, myopic

grubbiness, proportion, vetted, maneuver, Reconstruction, resemblance, caste, dicta (dictum), discreet

changelings, mandrake roots, abstract, speculations

fidgeting, inflection, breeding, elusive

curtness, isolation, crackle

 

Chapter 14

allergic, squirm, dumpy, obscure, carnal

shred, penitentiary

retreated, taut, antagonize, rankling

formerly, edification, stance, gouging, brawl

adjoining, resilient, coiled, negligee, tentative, reverent, emerge

perish, devoured, narrative, ventilator, manacles, infallible, scrub

flickered, erosion, traitor

riot, civil

diction

 

Chapter 15

defendant, placid, foolproof

postponement, begrudge, glee, venue, inaudible

ominous, subjected, crisis, evaluation

criteria, pronouncement, interval, linotype

prevailed, composed, prohibited, poke

affliction, hitching rail

peered, venerable, miniature, Gothic, battlements, buttresses, facade, ecclesiastical, wedged, detractors

oblivious, aspect, succinct

shrieked, lingering, acquiescence, defiance, burly

justification, prospects, sullen-looking

aggregation, uncouth, idiocy, impassive, ramshackle

husky, encumbered, pace

fey

 

Chapter 16

disorderly, lurched, Mennonites

Prohibition, akimbo

subpoena, elucidate

dispel

solicitor, multitudes, unobtrusive

equity, controversy, eccentricities, connivance, extracted, litigants

 

Chapter 17

scrutiny

corresponding

scampered, corroborating, amiably, turbulent

fluctuations, prosperity, congenital, indigenous, corrugated, gleaning

aromas, acrimonious

benignly, audibly, obscene

dictum, smugly

complacently, tenet

pantomime, ambidextrous

 

Chapter 18

lavations

chiffarobe, mollified

perpetual, chronic, neutrality

pilgrimage, involuntary

arid, detached

constructionist, severed, spittoon, exodus

 

Chapter 19

induced

volition, collective

predicament, unimpaired, ex cathedra

misdemeanor, expunge

impudent

 

Chapter 20

discreet

perpetrated, fraud

corroborative, indicted, detachment, equivalent

subsequent, contraband, aridity

circumstantial evidence, exclusively, unmitigated, temerity, cynical, caliber

distaff


adapted from 
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