1. To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary

2. Tuesday, May 1, 2018 to go at a slow, easy pace
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues.
They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything.
When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.
Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom.
to go at a slow, easy pace
to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease
evil; harmful; injurious

3. Wednesday, May 2, 2018 promising success; favorable
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues.
The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first.
Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty.
He was much older than the parents of our school contemporaries, and there was nothing Jem or I could say about him when our classmates said, “My father—”
promising success; favorable
physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail
people who exist/live at the same time

4. Thursday, May 3, 2018 a right or privilege
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues.
She (Aunt Alexandra) was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn.
I felt Calpurnia’s hand dig into my shoulder. “What you want, Lula?” she asked, in tones I had never heard her use. She spoke quietly, contemptuously.
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…
Thursday, May 3, 2018
a right or privilege
showing or expressing contempt (the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless)
pleasantly calm or peaceful; quiet

5. Friday, May 4, 2018 bitter, stinging, or caustic in nature or speech
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues.
We could tell, however, when debate became more acrimonious than professional, but this was from watching lawyers other than our father. I never heard Atticus raise his voice in my life, except to a deaf witness.
Still, everything he read he passed along to me, but with this difference: formerly, because he thought I’d like it; now, for my edification and instruction.
I wasn’t sure what Jem resented most, but I took umbrage at Mrs. Dubose’s assessment of the family’s mental hygiene.
Friday, May 4, 2018
bitter, stinging, or caustic in nature or speech
to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift
offense; annoyance; displeasure

6. Bell Ringer – Read each sentence
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues.
We were accustomed to prompt, if not always cheerful acquiescence to Atticus’s instructions, but from the way he stood Jem was not thinking of budging.
Why they objected to Miss Maudie’s yard was a mystery, heightened in my mind because for someone who spent all the daylight hours outdoors, Miss Maudie’s command of Scripture was formidable.
Miss Stephanie eyed me suspiciously, decided that I meant no impertinence, and contented herself with, “Well, you won’t get very far until you start wearing dresses more often.”
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance
inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable
lack of respect; rudeness

7. Bell Ringer – Read each sentence
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues.
The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place.
“You might like to know that there was one fellow who took considerable wearing down—in the beginning he was rarin’ for an outright acquittal.”
Immediately thereafter, the ladies adjourned for refreshments.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
a very small quantity
the act of relieving from a charge of fault or crime; declaration of not guilty
break off (a meeting, legal case, or game) with the intention of resuming it later

8. Friday, May 11, 2018 not softened or lessened
Bell Ringer – Read each sentence. In your journal, write the underlined word and make a guess about the definition based on the context clues.
And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to ‘feel sorry’ for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people’s.
Friday, May 11, 2018
not softened or lessened
excessive confidence or boldness; audacity