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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird. Chapter Two Vocabulary Please record the definitions on your handout. (You do not need to write down the information in parenthesis.). auburn (adj.): reddish-brown catawba worms (n.): caterpillars

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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  1. To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter Two Vocabulary Please record the definitions on your handout. (You do not need to write down the information in parenthesis.)

  2. auburn (adj.): reddish-brown catawba worms (n.):caterpillars condescended (v): agreed to do something that you believe to be beneath your dignity covey (n): a group crimson (adj): blood-red cunning (adj): In this case, cunning means attractive or cute--almost too cute entailment (n): a legal situation regarding the use of inherited property.

  3. hookworms (n): a type of parasite. (hookworms usually enter the body through bare feet and move through the body to the small intestines where they attach themselves with a series of hooks around their mouths.) immune (adj): to be immune to something means that it has no effect on you.

  4. indigenous (adj): belonging to a particular region or country scrip stamps (n): paper money of small amounts (less than $1.00) issued for temporary emergency use. (During the Great Depression,many local and state government gave out scrip stamps to needy people.) seceded (v): To secede is to break away. (During the Civil War, Alabama was one of the states that broke away, or seceded from the Union.)

  5. smilax (n): a bright green twinning vine, often used for holiday decorations. sojourn (n): a brief visit subsequent mortification (adj + n): Something that is subsequent will follow closely after something else. Mortification is a feeling of shame or the loss of self respect. vexations (n): something that causes annoyance or problems.

  6. wallowing illicitly (v + adv): to wallow is to indulge in something with great enjoyment. Illicit means unauthorized or improper.

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