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30 Cards in this Set
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assuaged
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calmed, eased
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Jem's fear of never being able to play football were assuaged
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apothecary
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pharmacist
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Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall
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cattels
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movable property (in this case a slave)
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Simon, having forgotten his teacher's dictum on th possession of human chattles
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impotent
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powerless
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Simon would have reguarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South
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taciturn
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quiet, not speaking much
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She married a taciturn man
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unsullied
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clear, pure
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Atticus's office contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard, and an unsullied Code of Alabama
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dispached
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sent out, killed
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The Haverfords had dispatched Macomb's leading blcksmith
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imprudent
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not wise, foolish
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They were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses
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talcum
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powder
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They were like soft tea cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum
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epic
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huge
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Our battles were epic and one-sided
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repertoire
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list of things you can preform
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By the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions
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vapid
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dry, dull, boring, barren
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By the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions
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malevolent
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evil, wishing evil to happen to others
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Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom
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predilection
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preference
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The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb
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concession
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giving in, an agreement to give in on a point
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Jem stood in thought so long that dill made a mild concession
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foray
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raid, invasion into another person's territory
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Jem slapped the house with the palm of his hand and ran back past us, not waiting to see if his foray was successful
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condescended
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to do something beneath your dignity, to stoop
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Jem condescended to take me to school the first day
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indigenous
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native
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The class murmered apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region
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illicitly
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illegitimately, illegally
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I had never deliberately learned to read, but somehow i had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers
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scrip stamps
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paper money issued for temporary emergency use as a substitute for real money during the Great Depression
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The Cunninghams never took anything they can't pay back-- no church baskets and no script stamps
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diminutive
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smallin size, smaller than usual
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He was among the most diminutive of men, but when Burris Ewell turned toward him, Little Chuck's right hand went to his pocket.
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amiable
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agreeable, friendly
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discernible
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observable, understandable
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Atticus kept us in fits that evening, gravely reading columns of print about a man who sat on a flagpole for no discernible reason
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auspicious
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favorable, promising
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The remainder of the schooldays were no more auspicious than the first
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ethical
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dealing with the principles of right and wrong, morally right
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Helping ourselves to someone's scuppernongs was a part of our ethical culture, but money was different
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reluctantly
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with hesitation
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I reluctantly played assorted ladies who entered the script
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tacit
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quiet, not spoken aloud
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Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn.
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chameleon
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tree-dewelling lizards that can change color to blend in with their surroundings
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She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men's coveralls
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benevolence
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kindness, giving in time of need
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Miss Maudie's benevolence extended to Jem and Dill
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entailment
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a legal situation regaurding the use of inherited property
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When I asked Jem what entailment was, and Jem described it as a condition of having your tail in your crack
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