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TKMB vocab
words from To Kill A Mocking bird
16
English
8th Grade
03/07/2008

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Term
Passe
Definition

out of date, no longer fashionable

 

"the second grade at school and tormenting Boo Radley became passe" 

 

 

p. 114 

Term

Wrathful

 

Definition

extremely or violently angry

 

 

"we would be raked by her wrathful gaze,"

 

 p. 114

 

Term
Interrogation
Definition

the act or process of questioning somebody aften in aggressive mannor

 

 "subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behavior"

 

p. 114 

Term
Apoplectic
Definition

over come with anger

 

"once she heard Jem refer to our father as Atticus and her reaction was Apoplectic"

 

p. 115 

Term
philippic
Definition

p. 117 

 

a verbal attack on somebody of something delivered i the most savege, bitter, and insulting terms, usually as speech  

 

"and we were followed up the sidewalk by a philippic on our family's moral degeneration." 

Term
umbrage
Definition

p. 117 

 

resentment or annoyance arising from same offense

 

 

"I took umbrange at mrs. Dubose's assessment of the family's mental hygiene." 

Term
rectitude
Definition

p. 118 

 

strong moral integrity in character oraction

 

 

"and the phase of self-conscious rectitude he had recently entered 

Term
interdict
Definition

p. 118

 

a court order that prohibits something

 

 "what Jem did was something I'd do as a matter of coures had I not been under atticus's interdict

 

Term
palliation
Definition

p. 118

 

to reduce the intensity of something

 

"she was a less than satisfactory soure of palliation 

Term
tirade
Definition

p. 122

 

along angry speech, usually of criticism of denunciation

 

"I was expecting a tirade 

Term
antagonized
Definition

p. 125

 

to cause a person or animal to be hostile

 

"today she had antagonized Jem for hearly two hours 

Term
cantankerous
Definition

p. 127

 

easily angered and difficult to get along with

 

"she was conscious to the last almost. conscious, he smiled, and cantankerous." 

Term
indignantly
Definition
p. 135

angry of annoyed at the unfairness

"but the roses on her hat trembled indignantly"
Term
denunciation
Definition
p. 138

a public accusation or condemnation of someone of something

"his sermon was a forthright denunciation"
Term
austere
Definition
p. 138

imposing of suggesting physical hard ship

"an austere declaration of the motto on the well behind him"
Term
ecclesiastical
Definition
p. 136

belonging to or involving the christian church of clergy
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