TKaM Ch. 2-3 Vocabulary and Comprehension

Having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion

• Mortgaged

• Grudge

• Cunning

• Mortified

Peculiarities

• The traits that make all characters the same in a novel

• The act of breaking away from, or giving up something

• A common feature or regular trait

• A strange or unusual feature or habit

Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen

• Assurance

• Apprehension

• Appraised

• Mortified

To cause someone to feel very embarrassed or ashamed

• Mortified

• Mortgage

• Mortician

• Mortised

Condescend

• To be sarcastic to someone

• To speak down to somebody, or do something for them, from a superior position

• To go up from a lower position to help someone

• Looking up to a person in respect

Speaking softly and unclearly

• Cunning

• Assurance

• Grudge

• Mumbled

Entailment

• a mortgage

• The ability to get a mortgage of your property through a bank

• To limit the inheritance of a property over a number of generations so that ownership remains within a particular family or group

• No limits in being able to sell your property

The original people, plants & animals in a land

• Indigenous

• ingenious

• ingenuous

• disingenuous

Referring to the kind of person or character of a man

• a dog

• Breeze

• Breech

• Breed

To have a feeling of ill-will or resentment resulting from a past insult or injury

• begrudge

• grudge

• grumpy

• trudge