Chapter 1-2 TKAM

Assuaged

• Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

• Intensify a feeling

• Anger someone

• Question

piety

• concealed; secret

• physically strong, fit, and active

• the quality of being religious or reverent;

  a belief or point of view that is accepted with unthinking conventional reverence

• a continuing sound, especially of a person's voice, that is unchanging in pitch and without intonation

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Brethren

• having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance

• with sincere and intense conviction; seriously

• a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction

• fellow Christians or members of a male religious order

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Strictures

• a restriction on a person or activity

• a small hole in a tire resulting in an escape of air

• a large or excessive amount of (something)

• (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

lest

• intervene between people in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement or reconciliation

• give shares of (something); deal out

• keep (something) from happening or arising

• with the intention of preventing (something undesirable); to avoid the risk of

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Dictum

• a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group

• a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

chattels

• (in general use) a personal possession

• talk rapidly or incessantly about trivial matters

• the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks

• extremely unpleasant

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

taciturn

• absolutely necessary or important; essential

• offensive to the senses, especially through having a disgusting smell or taste or being unpleasantly soiled

• reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

• the maximum amount that something can contain

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

imprudent

• not showing due respect for another person; impertinent

• done on purpose; deliberate

• not showing care for the consequences of an action; rash

• unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

tyrannical

• not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts

• exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way

• existing in or as part of a tradition; long-established

• the official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4