To Kill a Mockingbird Vocab

When we were on the sidewalk in front of Miss Maudie’s, Mr. Avery accosted us…‘See what you’ve done?’ he said. ‘Hasn’t snowed in Maycomb since Appomattox. It’s bad children like you makes the seasons change.’ What does accosted mean?

• Approach or talk to someone aggressively

• Accused or assumed without proof

• Conforming to accepted standards of conduct

• how much you pay for something

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“We entered the black seventh grade room and were led around by the temporary ghoul in residence and were made to touch several objects alleged to be the component parts of a human being.” What does alleged mean?

• to assume an air of superiority

• lacking in power, strength, or vigor

• accused or assumed without proof

• standing on a ledge

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

 "The moment she said it I knew she had made a serious mistake. The boy’s condescension flashed to anger." What does condescension mean?

• conforming to accepted standards of conduct

• an air of superiority

• lacking in power, strength, or vigor

• anger

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Plucking an occasional camellia, getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss Maudie Atkinson’s cow on a summer day, helping ourselves to someone’s scuppernongs was part of our ethical culture, but money was different. What does ethical mean?

• lacking in power, strength, or vigor

• produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment

• sick

• conforming to accepted standards of conduct

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

“Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century” What does impotent mean?

• lacking in power, strength, or vigor

• produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment

• to compel or deter by or as if by threats

• important without the r

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Miss Caroline printed her name on the blackboard and said, 'This says I am Miss Caroline Fisher. I am from North Alabama, from Winston County.' The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region." What does indigenous mean?

• weird

• able to read and write

• to compel or deter by or as if by threats

• produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time." What does intimidation mean?

• a state of such disrepair that it appears ready to collapse

• controling through threats

• able to read and write

• torture

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

"After making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate." What does literate mean?

• annoying

• a memory

• Able to read and write

• a state of such disrepair that it appears ready to collapse

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"The back of the Radley house was less inviting than the front: a ramshackle porch ran the width of the house." What does ramshackle mean?

• pretty

• to approach and speak to someone in an often challenging or aggressive way

• a state of such disrepair that it appears ready to collapse

• conforming to accepted standards of conduct

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end." What does entity mean?

• a being that exists on it's own

• lacking in power, strength, or vigor

• something that doesn't exist

• a state of such disrepair that it appears ready to collapse

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4