Vocab Wizard -Chapter 4
Vocab Wizard -Crystal Koh
Chapter 4 -To kill a mocking bird
1. Calpurnia’s tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval.
Tyranny : Unfair and strict control over someone
He longed to escape from the tyranny of his aunt.
2. Mrs Dubose lived two doors up the street from us; neighbourhood opinion was unanimous that Mrs Dubose was the meanest old woman who ever lived.
Unanimous : of one mind; in complete agreement; agreed.
3. Plucking an occasional camellia, getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss Maudie Atkinson’s cow on a summer day, helping ourselves to someone’s scuppernongs was a part of our ethical culture, but money was diffferent.
Camellia : any of several shrubs of the genus Camellia, esp. C. japonica, native to Asia, having glossy evergreen leaves and white, pink, red, or variegated roselike flowers.
Scuppernongs :A cultivated variety of the muscadine grape with sweet yellowish fruit.
4. Lemonade in the middle of the morning was a summertime ritual.
Ritual : A ceremony that is always performed in the same way, in order to mark an important religious or social occasion.
5. His worth perfomance was Gothic.
Gothic: Frightening things that happen in mysterious old buildings, and lonely places in film.
6. Jem’s evasion told me our game was a secret, so I kept quiet.
Evasion : The act of avoiding doing something that you should do, or an example of this behaviour.
If there’s any other words you don’t understand the meaning, please kindly post a comment under this post with the full sentence of that particular word.
Thank you.
Posted by: Crystal Koh
