To Kill a Mockingbird - Vocabulary List

Across

2. Something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action. Unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment.
5. Suggesting the horror of death and decay. Suggesting an unhealthy mental state. Cause by or altered by or manifesting disease.
6. Elaborately or excessively ornamented. Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life.
12. A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs. A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold.
19. A person who tells a story or gives an account of something.
20. In fiction, it is a scene that takes place before the story begins. These interrupt the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events in a character’s life.
21. Lacking in sophistication or worldliness. Someone who shows childlike innocence, trust, and openness.
23. Make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation. Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance.
26. An indication of something that will happen in the future, often used as a literary device to hint at or allude to future plot developments. Sometimes this is used to build suspense.
29. Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals, a car, etc.).
30. The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
32. A fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.
33. Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty. Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior.
34. The use of words or images to symbolize specific concepts, people, objects, or events. These are figurative or implied representations of something else.
35. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.

Down

1. Continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.
3. A strong feeling of embarrassment. An instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect.
4. Recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like. Elastic; rebounding readily.
7. Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.
8. A performance using gestures and body movements without words. Act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only.
9. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
10. Plausible but false. Intended to deceive. Born out of wedlock.
11. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness. Lacking strength or vigor.
13. Anger produced by some annoying irritation. The psychological state of being irritated or annoyed. A source of anxiety or unhappiness.
14. A deliberately fabricated account of something. A literary work based on imagination rather than on fact.
15. A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group.
16. An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly. An indirect or passing reference.
17. To provide physical relief, as from pain. To satisfy thirst. To cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of.
18. Grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred. Characterized by poor behavior and cursing.
22. Something that is inferred. Example: Being a good student, for instance, is an _________ of attending classes, learning the material, and keeping up with assignments. An old-fashioned definition of _________ is a set of limitations that restrict the ways property can be bequeathed to heirs.
24. A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment.
25. The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work.
27. To write carelessly.
28. A natural inclination. An inclination to do something. A disposition to behave in a certain way.
31. In a manner that reveals little emotion or sensibility; not easily excited.