Vocabulary- Ch.6-10

Write your own sentence with each of these words.

Vocabulary Ch. 6-10 To Kill a Mockingbird

Unfathomable (adj)

Unable to be understood

For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year.

Aberrations (n)

Deviations; straying from normal

Mr Avery tells Jem and Scout that their bad behavior has caused the snow. This makes them feel guilty because they believe they have contributed to the aberrations (or changes) of the weather, and have caused unhappiness to their neighbors.

Perpetrated (vt)

Committed

You’ve perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard. [Libel means a statement that damages someone’s reputation]

Inordinately (adv)

Excessively

He wore a General Hood type beard of which he was inordinately vain.

Ingenuous (adj)

Simple; straightforward; innocent, unsuspecting

He was a year older than I, and I avoided him on principle: he enjoyed everything I disapproved of, and disliked my ingenuous diversions.

Analogous (adj)

Comparable on certain points

Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.

Wary (adj)

Cautious; careful

He and Aunty looked alike, but Uncle Jack made better use of his face: we were never wary of his sharp nose and chin.

She summoned Jem, who sat warily on the sofa beside me.

Invective (n)

Insult; verbal abuse

He simply murmured, "Her use of bathroom invective leaves nothing to the imagination

Vehemently (adv)

Forcefully

Atticus shook his head vehemently: "Don’t just stand there, Heck!

Articulate (adj)

Able to speak; expressing oneself clearly or effectively

Jem became vaguely articulate: " ’d you see him, Scout? d you see him just standin’ there?

Rectitude (n)

morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness.

In later years, I sometimes wondered exactly what made Jem do it, what made him break the bonds of "You just be a gentleman, son," and the phase of self-conscious rectitude he had recently entered.

Propensity (n)

natural tendency to behave in a particular way.

The next afternoon at Mrs. Dubose’s was the same as the first, and so was the next, until gradually a pattern emerged: everything would begin normally— that is, Mrs. Dubose would hound Jem for a while on her favorite subjects, her camellias and our father’s nigger-loving propensities; she would grow increasingly silent, then go away from us.

Palliation (n)

to relieve or lessen without curing; alleviate

She was a less than satisfactory source of palliation, but she did give Jem a hot biscuit-and-butter which he tore in half and shared with me.

Patients with terminal diseases usually need palliation. It's a kind of care that makes you feel better, even though it can't cure you.

Apoplectic (adj)

overcome with anger, extremely indignant; or relating to someone having a stroke

Once she heard Jem refer to our father as “Atticus” and her reaction was apoplectic.