To Kill A Mocking Bird - Part One

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Across
  1. 3. Use the adjective _____ to describe something that is similar to something else and can be compared to another.
  2. 5. a town in central Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, ending the Civil War.
  3. 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.
  4. 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!
  5. 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 no longer fashionable or in wide use because it's out-of-date; outmoded.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 ____.
  6. 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.
  7. 14. You might eat some ____ on a picnic. A silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
  8. 18. ____ is one's preference.Of course, my ______ are to be sitting where you are instead.
  9. 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 ______.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 26. A ____ is a preference for or bias toward something. If you have a ___ for wool clothing, you should take up knitting.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 32. He could be _____ and rude, yet hated to be embarrassed.
  16. 33. When you _____, you move with quick anxious steps, like a bug running for cover when a light is turned on.
  17. 34. Lullabies and tunes ____ to infants have been a centuries-old method of soothing babies to lull them to sleep.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 39. They think that this remembrance of their virtue and goodness doth _____provoke and enforce the quick to virtue.
Down
  1. 1. She figured her plants, including her beloved fruit trees and _____ , were a total loss.
  2. 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. 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. 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 ____.
  5. 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.
  6. 9. To _____ is to approach someone aggressively or confront them in an inappropriate way.
  7. 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.
  8. 12. If you want to call someone a complete stupid while sounding smart yourself,_____is your go-to word.
  9. 15. is to be courteous, gracious, friendly and warm. He recently sounds decent but he's only been _____ since about two months ago.
  10. 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.
  11. 17. ____ means small. A ____ person is short and small. A _____ word is a "cute" version of a regular word, "Maggie" is the _____ of "Margaret."
  12. 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.
  13. 23. by the time she was of marriageable age, the tree was ready to be cut and made into combs for her _____.
  14. 24. The doll's costume is of gray-green alpaca with a plaid ____ turban.
  15. 25. Someone or something that is ____ is gentle, kind, mild, or unharmful a benign soul wouldn't hurt a fly.
  16. 26. they were engaged thus ______ when both heard an unfamiliar sound in the private hallway.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 30. ____ is a member of the second order of angels, often represented as a beautiful rosy-cheeked child with wings.
  20. 35. Is a tobacco pipe. The finale to our day was sharing a _____ and listening to the stories of life
  21. 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.