To Kill A Mockingbird

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The following vocabulary-word list is not exhaustive .  You will probably have to look up more words than the ones listed here.  Do not forget to find the meaning of the words IN CONTEXT, which means that you should pay attention to the situation in which a word is used in the novel.  Understanding the following will help you to get more out of the book, so do not hesitate to use an online dictionary or thesaurus such as: http://www.m-w.com.

 

Chapter 1:

ambled (vb)

impotent (adj)

Andrew Jackson (historical figure)

malevolent (adj)

apothecary (n)

Methodists (n)

assuaged (vb)

Mobile (geographical location)

Atticus (historical figure)

mockingbird (n)

Auburn (geographical location)

nebulous (adj)

beadle (n)

Pensacola (geographical location)

brethren (n)

piety (n)

cannas (n)

predilection (n)

Charles Lamb (historical figure)

ramrod (adj)

collard (n)

repertoire was vapid (n + adj)

corset (n)

scold (n)

dictum (n)

spittoon (n)

domiciled (vb)

strictures (n)

eaves (n)

taciturn (adj)

foray (n)

unsullied (adj)

human chattels (n)

veranda (n)

Chapter 2:

catawba worms (n)

indigenous (adj)

condescended (vb)

scrip stamps (n)

covey (n)

seceded (vb)

crimson (adj)

smilax (n)

cunning (adj)

sojourn (n)

entailment (n)

subsequent mortification (adj + n)

hookworms (n)

vexations (n)

illicitly (adv)

wallowing illicitly (vb + adv)

immune (adj)

W.P.A. (political program)

Chapter 3:

amiable (adj)

erratic (adj)

contemptuous (adj)

flinty (adj)

contentious (adj)

fractious (adj)

cootie (n)

hain't (n)

cracklin bread (n)

irked (v)

diminutive (adj)

kerosene (n)

discernible (adj)

lye soap (n)

dispensation (n)

monosyllabic (adj)

dose of magnesia (n + n)

mutual concessions (adj. + noun)
eddy (n) onslaught (n)

Chapter 4:

auspicious (adj)

quelling of nausea (v + n)

Indian heads (n)

scuppermongs (n)

melancholy (adj)

Chapter 5:

asinine (adj)

morbid (adj)

benevolence (n)

Nashville (geographical location)

benign (adj)

placidly (adv)

bridgework (n)

Protestant (adj)

cordiality (n)

pulpit Gospel (adj + n)

edification (n)

quibbling (v)

gaped (vb)

Second Battle of the Marne (historical event)

inquisitive (adj)

tacit (adj)

mimosa (n)

Chapter 6:

dismemberment (n)

lattice-work (adj)

eerily (adv)

malignant (adj)

ensuing (adj)

prowess (n)

Franklin Stove (n)

ramshackle (adj)

kudzu (n)

waning (adj)

Chapter 7:

camel-kicked 

perpetual embalming (adj+n)

cleaved (vb)

rendered (her) speechless (vb+n)

gnats (n)

vigil (n)

palate (n)

whittles (vb)

Chapter 8:

azaleas (n)

Rosetta Stone (n)

cannas (vb)

switches (n)

flue (n)

taffeta (n)

near libel (adj+n)

touchous (adj)

plaited (vb)

treble (adj)

quelled (vb)

unfathomable (adj)

roomers (n)

Chapter 9:

ambrosia (n) jar (vb)
analogous (adj) jetty (n)
attire (n) Lord Melbourne (historical figure)
bawled (vb) mishaps (n)
bluff (n) Missouri Compromise (historical event)
catwalk (n) mortify (vb) 
changelings (n) obstreperous (adj)
confederate veteran (n) pantry (n)
crooned (v) porter (n)
deportment (n) ringworm (n)
dim (adj) siblings (n)
dooned (vb) still (n)
doused (vb) subdued (vb)
gastric (adj) tarried (vb)
guilelessness (n) tentatively (adv)
harbored (vb) tongs (n)
hookah (n) trousseau (n)
impaired (adj) uncompromising lineaments (adj+n)
ingenuous (adj) wary (adj)
innate (adj) widow's walk (n)
inordinately (adv) Yankees (n)
invective (n)  

Chapter 10:

alist (adj) inconspicuous (adj)
bout (n) Jew's Harp (n)
corncribs (n) mad dog (adj+n)
crook (of his arm) (n) mausoleum (n)
erratically (adv) Providence (n)
feeble (adj) tartly (adv)
gingerly (adv)  

Chapter 11:

apoplectic (adj) palliation (n)
arbor (n) philippic (n)
bedecked (adj) plate (n)
calomel (n) propensities (n)
camellia (n) reconnaissance (n)
C.S.A. (abb) rectitude (n)
decreed (vb) relic (n)
dog-trot hall (adj+n) skulked (vb)
escapade (n) syringe (n)
infuriated (vb) tirade (n)
livid (adj) umbrage (n)
mutts (n) undulate (vb)
oppressive (adv) viscous (adj)

Chapter 12:

alien (adj) dispelled (vb)
appalling (n) ecclesiastical impedimenta (adj+n)
asafoetida (n) garish (adj)
Birmingham (geographical location) habiliments (n)
boded (vb) inconsistent (adj)
castile (n) indignantly (adv)
church (vb) lilac talcum (adj+n)
clad (vb) rotrogravure print (n)
contemptuously (adv) snuff (n)
contentious (adj) tapeworm (n)
diligently (adv) voile (adj)

Chapter 13:

caste system (adj+n) obliquely (adv)
curtness (n) prerogative (n)
devoid (adj) shinny (n)
flighty (adj) sluggish (adj)
incestuous (adj) soberly (adv)
irritable (adj) spun (vb)
mandrake roots (n) tactful (adj)
myopic (adj) tight (adj)

Chapter 14:

bushel (n) neat (adj)
manacles (n) taut (adj)

Chapter 15:

acquiescence (n) linotype (n)
aggregation (n) ominous (adj)
begrudge (vb) shinnied up (adj)
futility (n) stifle (vb)
Henry W. Grady (historical figure) succint (adj)
impassive (adj) uncouth (adj)
Jitney Jungle (n) venue (adj)

Chapter 16:

akimbo (adj) profane (adj)
Braxton Bragg (historical figure) ruddy (adj)
circuit solicitor (n) Scripture (n)
dispel (vb) subpoena (n)
fey (adj) sundry (adj)
khaki (adj) William Jennings Bryan (historical figure)
Mennonites (n)  

Chapter 17:

acrimonious (adj) genially (adv)
affirmative nod (adj+n) geraniums (n)
amber (adj) gullet (n)
ambidextrous (adj) heaved (vb)
amiably (adv) import (n)
bantam cock (n) load o'kindlin' (n)
benignly (adv) namesake (n)
cast (n) quelling (vb)
complacently (adv) refuse (n)
congenital (adj) ruttin' on (vb)
contempt charges (adj+n) skewed (adj)
corroborating evidence (adj+n) slop jars (n)
corrugated (adj) smugness (n)
counsel (n) sulky (adj)
crepey (adj) sullen (adj)
dictum (n) tenet (n)
dogged (adj) title dispute (n)
edge (n) varmints (n)
frog-sticking without a light (idiom) warranted (vb)
gardenia (n)  

Chapter 18:

chiffarobe (n) mollified (adj)
constructionalist (n) pilgrimage (n)
dusk (n) riled (adj)
exodus (n) strenuous (adj)
ground-itch (n) tedious (adj)
grudging (adj) wrathfully (adv)
lavations (n)  

Chapter 19:

buck (n) impudent (adj)
candid (adj) subtlety (n)
ex cathdra remarks (adj+n) thin-hided (adj)
express (adj) unimpaired (adj)
expunge (vb) volition (n)
grimly (adv)  

Chapter 20:

aridity (n) iota (n)
caliber (n) minute (adj)
capital charge (adj+n) pauper (n)
corroborative evidence (adj+n) Rockefeller (historical figure)
cynical confidence (adj+n) temerity (n)
distaff side (adj+n) Thomas Jefferson (historical figure)
fraud (n) unmitigated (adj)
indicted (vb)  

Chapter 21:

charged the jury (vb+n) indignant (adj)
exhilarated (adj)  

Chapter 22:

cynical (adj) heathen (adj)
fatalistic (adj) ruefully (adv)
feral (adj)  

Chapter 23:

circumstantial evidence (adj+n) statute (n)
commutes (vb) vehement (adj)
dry (adj) wary (adj)
hung jury (adj+n) wryly (adv)
peace bond (n) yap (n)

Chapter 24:

bellows (n) Mrs. Roosevelt (historical figure)
brevity (n) squalid (adj)
charlotte (n) squalor (n)
devout (adj) sulky (adj)
earworms (n) yaws (n)
largo (adj)  

Chapter 25:

roly-poly (n) veneer (n)
scowling (vb)  

Chapter 26:

recluse (n) spurious (adj)

Chapter 27:

Clanton (geographical location) nondescript (adj)
florid (adj) maiden ladies (adj+n)

Chapter 28:

boil-proned (adj) hock (n)
climbers (n) irascible (adj)
crap games (n) pinioned (adj)
forest primeval (n+adj) rout (vb)
gait (n) staccato (adj)

Chapter 29:
No vocabulary!

Chapter 30:

blandly (adv) craw (n)
connived (vb) wisteria (n)

Chapter 31:

railing (adj)