TKMB Vocabulary Chapters 1-11 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

You usually do not see _______ in areas of town where people with great wealth live. (state of being extremely poor)

poverty

Superstition and _________ prevent them from benefiting from modern medicine. (lack of knowledge or information)

ignorance

By the _____ agreement, the children would often play on Miss Maudie's front lawn even though she never told them it was alright to do so. (mutal agreement between two people not actually said)

tacit

Scout referred to her teacher as a _______ because she reminded her of the animal who can change their appearance. (quick changing)

chameleon

The Ewell boy felt _________ towards his teacher, Miss Caroline. (feeling that someone or something is beneath you)

contemptous

By offering friendship to Walter and promising that Scout won;t fight with him, Jem _______ her threat to fight with him more. (release from a promise)

dispenses

Scout is trying to _____ her nausea to make her stomack settle down. (calm, silence)

quell

The remainder of my schooldays were no more ________ than the first. (favorable)

auspicious

The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities _______ to that region. ( belonging to a certain region)

indigenous

Jem ___________ to take Scout to school, even though as a fifth grader, he feels superior to his first grade sister. (showing superiority)

condenscends

The ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective ____ only made me feel left out again. (superior ability, skill)

prowess

Next day Jem repeated his _____ and was rewarded. (a watch)

vigil

For reasons _______ to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb county , autumn turned to winter that year. (something that can't be understood)

unfathomable

He enjoyed everything I disapproved of, and disliked my ______ diversions. (simple, innocent)

ingenuous

Well not unless there's extreme __________ connected with 'em. (anger, irriation)

provocation

With these attributes, however, he would not remain as _______ as we wish him to. (to not attract attention)

inconspicuous

We were followed up the street by a philippic on our family's moral ________. (low honor or moral character)

degradation

He set on my feet, and I made a secret ________ of Jem. (examination, survey)

reconnaissance

The chinaberry trees were _______, hovering, alive. (dangerous, evil)

malignant

You can't go around making ________ of the neighbors. (eggagerated representation of a person)

caricatures

Jem's fear of not being able to play football were ________ after he was able to process what was happening. (to lesson or calm something

assuaged