To Kill a Mockingbird Ch. 1-4 Vocabulary Quiz

Dictum

• to make something unpleasant less severe

• reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

• a formal pronouncement or decree

• a personal possession

Assuage

• to make something unpleasant less severe

• a formal pronouncement or decree

• reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

• to walk at a slow, leisurely pace

Ambled

• to walk at a slow, leisurely pace

• a personal possession

• reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

• to make something unpleasant less severe

Tacit

• small in size

• immoral or unfair behavior

• understood or implied without being stated

• to put an end to; suppress

Taciturn

• a formal pronouncement or decree

• reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

• a personal possession

• to walk at a slow, leisurely pace

Chattel

• to walk at a slow, leisurely pace

•  a formal pronouncement or decree

• to make something unpleasant less severe

• a personal possession

Auspicious

• favorable or conducive to success

• to put an end to; suppress

•  understood or implied without being stated

• immoral or unfair behavior

Quelling

• understood or implied without being stated

• to put an end to; suppress

• immoral or unfair behavior

• favorable or conducive to success

Iniquities

• small in size

• immoral or unfair behavior

• understood or implied without being stated

• a formal decree

Diminutive

• immoral or unfair behavior

• small in size

• favorable or conducive to success

• to put an end to; suppress