Flashcards › To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary

impudent shamelessly bold repertoire all the special skills a person has taciturn almost always silent indigenous belonging to a particular region or country amiable friendly brouhaha (intensive) an uproar, hubbub elite (intensive) the best or most skilled members of a group malice (intensive) a desire or intention to harm others or see them suffer contentuous always ready to argue or fight diminutive smaller than ordinary fractious mean or cross cordiality sindere affection and kindness inquisitive questioning/prying slake (intensive) to quench; to satisfy a cravng predatory (intensive) victimizing or destroying others for one's own gain; pillaging inundate (intensive) to overwhelm with abundance or excess; flood ramshackle loose or rickety; about to fall apart caricatures representation of a person where certain features of that person are exaggerated or distorted perpetrated carried out; committed fanatical extreme enthusiasm, interest, zeal, etc. goes beyond what is reasonable provoke to excite some sort of feeling; often anger or irritation espouse (intensive) to adopt; to support corpulent (intensive) fat; obese bauble (intensive) a small, inexpensive trinket attributes characteristics;qualities of a person or thing erratically strangely; differently than normal feeble weak, frail rudiments principles; elements; subjects to be learned vaguely to be unclear or not precise balk (intensive) to stop short and refuse to proceed ascribe (intensive) to attribute to a specific cause, source, or origin forte (intensive) something in which a person excels