To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 1 Vocabulary

diffusing warmth and friendliness

• apothecary

• apprehensive

• assuage

• amiable

a health professional trained in the art of preparing drugs

• assuage

• concession

• apothecary

• contentious

anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

• contentious

• chattel

• assuage

• apprehensive

cause to be more favorably inclined

• assuage

• begrudge

• amiable

• condescend

allow unwillingly or reluctantly

• apprehensive

• contentious

• concession

• begrudge

spotlessly clean and fresh

• Cowlick

• Truant

• Inequity

• Unsullied

people in general considered as a whole

• Taciturn

• Inequity

• Imprudent

• Populace

a tuft of hair in a different direction from the rest

• Cowlick

• Taciturn

• Truant

• Dictum

not sensible, responsible, or wise

• Imprudent

• Dictum

• Inequity

• Truant

habitually reserved and uncommunicative

• Erratic

• Taciturn

• Inequity

• Populace