TKAM Vocabulary word for Chapter 2-5
CHAPTER 2
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SENTENCE:Hours of wintertime had found me in the three-house looking over at the school yard,spying on multitudes of children through a two-power telescope Jem had given me,learning their games,following Jem’s red jacket through wriggling circles of blind man’s buff,secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories.
Meaning:
multitudes:A very great number
An example of a sentence:There were multitudes of children in that class.
My own explanation:a large amount of children
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SENTENCE:Jem condescended to take me to school the first day,a job usually done by one’s parents,but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.
Meaning:
condescended:To deal with people in a patronizingly superior manner
An example of a sentence:His condescended to carry his sister bag.
My own meaning:sending Scout despite regarding it as below Jem’s dignity
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SENTENCE:I think some money changed hands in this transaction,for as we trotted around the corner past the Radley Place I heard an unfamiliar jingle in Jem’s pockets.
Meaning:
trotted:The gait of a horse or other four-footed animal, between a walk and a canter in speed, in which diagonal pairs of legs move forward together
An example of a sentence:We trotted around Singapore.
My own meaning:A gait around the corner
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Meaning:
jingle:To cause a tinkling or ringing metallic sound
An example of a sentence:An unknown jingle was heard from the pupils.
My own meaning:The sound produced by or as if by bits of metal striking together
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SENTENCE:When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the school hours I was not to bother him,I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the An Men,to embarrass him with references to his private life,or tag along behind him at recess and noon.
Meaning:
enact:to make into an act or statute
An example of a sentence:She was to enact a scene in crime watch.
My own explanation:They were taking up an act in a scene
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SENTENCE:She had bright auburn hair,pink cheeks,and wore crimson finger-nail polish.
Meaning:
auburn:a reddish-brown or golden-brown color
An example of a sentence:She has a natural auburn hair.
My own explanation:coloured
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SENTENCE:The class murmuredapprehensively,should she prove to harbour her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.
Meaning:
indigenous:originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country
An example of a sentence:They are indigenous to that particular group.
My own explanation:occurring naturally in an area or environment
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SENTENCE:People caught hookworms going bare-foot in barn-yards and hog wallows.
Meaning:
hookworms:a type of parasite
An example of a sentence:There were hookworm on that dog.
My own explanation: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
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Meaning:
wallows:To roll the body about indolently or clumsily in or as if in water, snow, or mud
An example of a sentence:He wallowed and was unexpectedly hookworm.
My own explanation:rolling the body may effect to hookworm
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SENTENCE:With Cristmas came a crate of smilax and holly.
Meaning:
smilax:a bright green twinning vine
An example of a sentence:Smilax was often used for Cristmas.
My own explanation:a delicate of the lily family, having glossy, bright-green, egg-shaped leaves, cultivated by florists.
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CHAPTER 3
Page 25
SENTENCE:His fists were half cocked,as if expecting an onslaught from both of us.
Meaning:
onslaught:A violent attack
An example of a sentence:There is an onslaught on the enemy troops.
My own explanation:An expected onset
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SENTENCE:Jem’s free dispensation of my pledge irked me,but precious noontime minutes were ticking away.
Meaning:
dispensation:a release from an obligation or promise
An example of a sentence:His dispensation to me made her mad.
My own explanation:an act or instance of distribution
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SENTNCE:’A haint lives there,’he said cordially,pointing to the Radley house.
haint:spooky
An example of a sentence:People nowadays do not believe in haints.
My own explanation:Scary
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CHAPTER 4
Page 36
SENTENCE:The remainder of my school days were no more auspicious than the first.
Meaning:
auspicious:favorable
An example of a sentence:It was the most auspicious day for me.
My own explanation:most like
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CHAPTER 5
PAGE 49
SENTENCE:’You know old Mr Radley was a foot-washing Baptist.’
Meaning:
Baptist:Christian denomination that baptizes believers by immersion
An example of a sentence:The Baptist made a foot-washing.
My own explanation:cristian nomination
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SENTENCE:Atticus grinned dryly.
Meaning:
dryly:dry eyes.
An example of a sentence:He moaned dryly.
My own explanation:no tears
