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SENTENCE:Mindful of John Wesley’s strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling,Simon made a pile practising medicine,but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into oding what he knew was not for the glory of God,as the putting on of gold and costly apparel.
Meaning:
pursuit:The act or an instance of chasing or pursuing
An example of a sentence:The culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit.
My own explanation:Simon is upset with the act.
Meaning:
apparel:anything that decorates or covers
An example of a sentence:She was refined in her choice of apparel.
My own explanation:The decoration that is expensive.
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SENTENCE:So Simon,having forgotten his teacher’s dictum on the possession of human chattels,bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint stephens.
Meaning:
dictum:an authoritative pronouncement
An example of a sentence:He repeated her dictum for the second time.
My own explanation:a formal statement from Simon’s teacher
Meaning:
human chattels:slaves
An example of a sentence:The human chattels were treated cruely.
My own explanation:The act of the slaves were told to Simon by his teachers
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SENTENCE:Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South,as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land,yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century,when my father,Atticus Finch went to Montgomery to read law,and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.
Meaning:
impotent:lacking power or ability.
An example of a sentence:Morality without technology is impotent.
My own explanation:Simon observe closely towards powerless violent anger
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SENTENCE:Their sister Alexandra was the Finch who remained at the Landing:she married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full.
Meaning:
taciturn man:almost always silent
An example of a sentence:No matter he is a taciturn man,he is the smartest person in the class.
My own explanation:Aunt Alexandra’s husband was a very quiet man
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SENTENCE:Atticus’s office in the court-house contained little more than a hat rack,a spittoon,a checker-board and an unsullied Code of Alambama.
Meaning:
Spittoon:a spitting jar
An example of a sentence:People used spittoon for necessary purpose.
My own explanation:Atticus’s office contains this spitting jar
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Meaning:
unsullied:untouched or unused
An example of a sentence:An unsullied vase was imported.
My own explanation:There was an untouched code of Alabama
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SENTENCE:Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning.
Meaning:
wilted:To become limp or flaccid
An example of a sentence:Plants wilting in the heat.
My own explanation:the numbers were droop
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SENTENCE:Our battles were epic and one-sided.
Meaning:
epic:of unusually great size or extent
An example of a sentence:The battle of epic is fame.
My own explanation:the battle is extend
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SENTENCE:Rain-rotten shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda ;oak trees kept the sun away.
Meaning:
eaves:the overhanging lower edge of a roof
An example of a sentence:There are birds nesting under the eaves.
My own explanation:there were rain-rotten overhanging lower edge of a roof
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Meaning:
veranda:A porch or balcony
An example of a sentence:The veranda is known to many people.
My own explanation:usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building
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SENTENCE:Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom.
Meaning:
Malevolent:violent
An example of a sentence:That stranger looks like is a malevolent guy.
My own explanation:harmful,injurious phantom
