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To Kill a Mockingbird
In-context Vocabulary
Chapters 3 and 4
expound
• Atticus was expounding upon farm problems when Walter interrupted to ask if there was any molasses in the house.
expound
• To set forth, explain, put out
• Think ex (“out”) + ponere (“to put”)
fractious
• She had always been too hard on me, she had at last seen the error of her fractious ways, she was sorry and too stubborn to say so.
fractious
• Unruly, readily angered
• Think “could break into a fraction”
amiable
• Atticus sat down in the swing and crossed his legs. His fingers wandered to his watchpocket; he said that was the only way he could think. He waited in amiable silence…
amiable
• Showing a pleasant personality
• Think amable in Spanish
auspicious
• The remainder of my schooldays were not more auspicious than the first.
auspicious
• Promising success
mortifying
• I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’.
mortifying
• To cause humiliation, embarrassment, or shame
• Think morir (“to die”) in Spanish
• It was so mortifying, that I just wanted to die!