TKAM ch. 1-6 vocab

When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were ____________, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.

• rigid

• assuaged

• benevolent

• illicit

Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longing, and _______ fancies.

• Quaint

• Placid

• Contradict

• Malevolent

In reference to the shadow…When it crossed Jem, Jem saw it.  He put his arms over his head and went _________.

• Assuage

• Contradictory

• Malevolent

• Rigid

Miss Maudie’s _______ extended to Jem and Dill, whenever they paused in their pursuits:  we reaped the benefits of a talent Miss Maudie had hitherto kept hidden from us.

• Benevolence

• Malevolence

• Rigidness

• Contradictions

“There’s some folks who don’t eat like us,” she whispered fiercely, “but you ain’t called on to ____________ ‘em at the table when they don’t…”

• Illicit

• Placidly

• Contradict

• Quaint

 I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing _______ in the daily papers.

• Illicitly

• Placidly

• Malevolently

• Benevolently

Jem said _______, “We are going to give a note to Boo Radley.”

• Quaintly

• Illicitly

• Placidly

• Contradict

Inside the house lived a _______ phantom.  People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him.

• Quaint

• Malevolent

• Benevolent

• Rigid

make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.

• Rigid

• Contradict

• Benevolent

• Assuage

Benevolence

• in a way that is contrary to or forbidden by law, rules, or custom.

• the quality of being well meaning; kindness.

• in a calm or peaceful manner; tranquilly:

• deny the truth of (a statement) by asserting the opposite.