To Kill a Mockingbird
In-context Vocabulary
Chapters 15-18
placid (144)
• It had been a placid week: I had minded Aunty; Jem had outgrown the treehouse, but helped Dill and me construct a new rope ladder for it; Dill had hit upon a foolproof plan to make Boo Radley come out at no cost to ourselves.
placid (144)
• Pleasantly calm or peaceful
venerable (150)
• The Maycomb jail was the most venerable and hideous of the county’s buildings.
venerable (150)
• Commanding respect because of great age or dignity
acrimonious (171)
• We could tell, however, when debate became more acrimonious than professional, but this was from watching lawyers other than our father.
acrimonious (171)
• Caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature
• Similar to acrid or acid
tenet (177)
• Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don’t already know the answer was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.
tenet (177)
• An opinion, principle, belief, position, doctrine
mollified (180)
• Mollified, Mayella gave Atticus a final terrified glance and said to Mr. Gilmer, “Well sir, I was on the porch and…”
mollified (180)
• To soften in feeling or temper
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