To Kill A Mocking Bird - Part One
Across
- 3. Use the adjective _____ to describe something that is similar to something else and can be compared to another.
- 5. a town in central Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, ending the Civil War.
- 6. In Greek mythology, _____was the food of the gods. At a picnic,_____ is a dessert made with oranges and shredded coconut. While the former bestowed immortality on all who ate it, the latter tastes very refreshing after fried chicken and potato salad.
- 7. A _____ is a satirical, exaggerated portrayal of person. You'd better not _____ your father by walking bent-over and speaking in his high voice. If he catches you, you'll be in trouble!
- 11. no longer fashionable or in wide use because it's out-of-date; outmoded. There were many photographs of ____ fashions. I thought hand-cranked pencil sharpeners were ____.
- 13. Something that's is clouded or hazy. When you walk through the woods on a foggy morning, the trees may all have a mysterious, ____look to them.
- 14. You might eat some ____ on a picnic. A silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- 18. ____ is one's preference.Of course, my ______ are to be sitting where you are instead.
- 19. is a fancy word for the place where you live. Whether it's a mansion on 5th Avenue or a tee-pee in the desert, if you live in it, it's your ______.
- 20. You might get an odd look if you ask your hairdresser to put your hair in a ____, but she’ll eventually figure out what you want a braid.
- 22. ____ means boisterous, noisy, aggressive, defiant. You’ve probably seen an ______ child in the grocery store, pulling away from her mother, screaming at the top of her lungs.
- 26. A ____ is a preference for or bias toward something. If you have a ___ for wool clothing, you should take up knitting.
- 29. A _____is a strong and sudden reaction, often negative and shared by many people, such as the ____ that erupted when Coca-Cola replaced its beloved soft drink with "New Coke" in the 1980s.
- 31. If you're prone to picking fights, making snarky comments, and being frustratingly stubborn, you're ____. And odds are you're not invited to too many parties.
- 32. He could be _____ and rude, yet hated to be embarrassed.
- 33. When you _____, you move with quick anxious steps, like a bug running for cover when a light is turned on.
- 34. Lullabies and tunes ____ to infants have been a centuries-old method of soothing babies to lull them to sleep.
- 36. A _____ is a small argument or fight. As a verb, it means to pick a mini-fight over something that doesn't really matter. "Let's not _____over price," people will say, usually when they plan to gouge you.
- 37. ____ is a noun that means something that is not normal or is very typical at all. An example of an _____ is when the temperature hits 90 degrees in January — it's nice and warm, but it's really strange.
- 38. ____is an interesting verb, in that it can mean both "tangle" and "untangle." So if you work to ravel yarn into a neat ball, your cat may come along and try to ravel it again.
- 39. They think that this remembrance of their virtue and goodness doth _____provoke and enforce the quick to virtue.
Down
- 1. She figured her plants, including her beloved fruit trees and _____ , were a total loss.
- 2. ___ means brief excursion. If you're in the army, that's a literal excursion into enemy territory. For the rest of us, it means trying something out. "My ___ into rugby ended with my spending a week in the hospital."
- 3. Use the adjective _____ for a favorable situation or set of conditions. If you start a marathon by falling flat on your face, that's not an _____ start.
- 4. A ______ is a building that contains a tomb or tombs. The Taj Mahal, built by Shah Jahan as a monument to his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, is the world's most famous ____.
- 8. ___is harsh, abusive language, like, "you dirty rotten scoundrel." I'm sure you can think of harsher and more obscene examples, but we won't get into them here.
- 9. To _____ is to approach someone aggressively or confront them in an inappropriate way.
- 10. If you show up for Thanksgiving dinner an hour late and covered in mud from a tag football game, your parents will give you a look of ______. This means they seriously disapprove of your actions, despite the fact that you scored the winning touchdown.
- 12. If you want to call someone a complete stupid while sounding smart yourself,_____is your go-to word.
- 15. is to be courteous, gracious, friendly and warm. He recently sounds decent but he's only been _____ since about two months ago.
- 16. Someone who is ____ is reserved, not loud and talkative. The word itself refers to the trait of reticence, of seeming aloof and uncommunicative. A ____ person might be snobby, naturally quiet, or just shy.
- 17. ____ means small. A ____ person is short and small. A _____ word is a "cute" version of a regular word, "Maggie" is the _____ of "Margaret."
- 21. If someone is _____, they wish evil on others. If you find yourself approaching someone with a _____ look in her eye, best to run the other way.
- 23. by the time she was of marriageable age, the tree was ready to be cut and made into combs for her _____.
- 24. The doll's costume is of gray-green alpaca with a plaid ____ turban.
- 25. Someone or something that is ____ is gentle, kind, mild, or unharmful a benign soul wouldn't hurt a fly.
- 26. they were engaged thus ______ when both heard an unfamiliar sound in the private hallway.
- 27. ____ is a tree, Melia azedarach, of the mahogany family, native to Asia but widely planted elsewhere for its ornamental yellow fruits and long clusters of fragrant purplish flowers.
- 28. If you _____ an unpleasant feeling, you make it go away. _______ your hunger by eating a bag of marshmallows may cause you other unpleasant feelings.
- 30. ____ is a member of the second order of angels, often represented as a beautiful rosy-cheeked child with wings.
- 35. Is a tobacco pipe. The finale to our day was sharing a _____ and listening to the stories of life
- 37. Although the sign at the back of the shop in the old town square said _____, most people called the man behind the counter by his modern title, "pharmacist," instead.