1. To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary Chapters 5-8 Ms DeFeo English I

2. Aloof I tried to be nice to her but she was very aloof, as if she didn’t have time for me.

3. Aloof (adj.) not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant

4. Benevolence She was a lady of great benevolence who spent much of her time uplifting the poor, the funeral was at beckenham.

5. Benevolence (n.) – a desire to do good to others

6. Benign I've described this because at the same time, the southwest was having a comparatively benign winter with much lower rainfall.

7. Benign (adj.) – gentle; kindly

8. Bewilderment She was left in complete bewilderment after her mother explained the directions to baking the cake, how is she supposed to do it?

9. Bewilderment (n.) – to confuse utterly; puzzled; a bewildered state

10. Cherub My niece is so sweet and innocent, she looks like a cherub.

11. Cherub (n.) - a winged angelic being described in biblical tradition as attending on God, regarded in traditional Christian angelology as an angel of innocence

12. Ensuing Since she violated the dress code, the ensuing consequence was that she had to sit in the guidance office all day and miss all of her classes, without being excused.

13. Ensuing (v.) – to happen or occur afterward or as a result.

14. Morbid She was dressed in all black, with black hair, black lipstick, and black nail polish, she looked very morbid.

15. Morbid (adj.) - characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, esp. death and disease.

16. Obliged “I would be much obliged to meet your parents”, said Jeremy, to his new girlfriend.

17. Obliged (v.) - make (someone) legally or morally bound to an action or course of action.

18. Prowess He comes from a strong extended family background of sporting prowess at various levels.

19. Prowess (n.) - skill or expertise in an activity or field

20. Tacit There is nearly always some knowledge and even tacit consent from a group, even if they refuse to join in.

21. Tacit (adj.) - understood or implied without being stated

22. Aberrations However, no excess chromosomal aberrations in circulating human lymphocytes have been observed in patients treated for 8 months.

23. Aberrations (n.) - a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome

24. Accosted After the police officers accosted the criminal, people in the neighborhood felt more safe.

25. Accosted (v.) - approach and address (someone) boldly or aggressively

26. Ascertaining The committee was ascertaining whether or not to continue with fund-raising dance.

27. Ascertaining (v.) - find (something) out for certain; make sure of

28. Cleaved Paul Bunyon cleaved the heavy wood perfectly down the center with his ax.

29. Cleaved (v.) - split or sever (something), esp. along a natural line or grain

30. Embalming Embalming fluid is a very important part of making peoples’ bodies look presentable at their funeral.

31. Enbalming (v.) - preserve (a corpse) from decay, originally with spices and now usually by arterial injection of a preservative

32. Feeble She was very feeble after having broken almost all of her bones in the bad car accident, her mother wouldn’t let her move a muscle.

33. Feeble (adj.) - lacking physical strength, esp. as a result of age or illness

34. Meditative It was obvious that she was very meditative over the project that was assigned, she was thinking about what could be done.

35. Meditative (adj.) - of, involving, or absorbed in meditation or considered thought.

36. Unfathomable It was unfathomable that the fire alarm was going off, yet there was no fire, and we were standing outside in the below freezing temperatures.

37. Unfathomable (adj.) – difficult or impossible to understand

38. Vigil After the horrific shooting in Sandy Hook, there was a candle light vigil held for the students’ who lost their lives.

39. Vigil (n.) - a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, esp. to keep watch or pray.

40. Whittle Alex the gnome used to whittle things and give them away as gifts.

41. Whittle (v.) - carve (wood) into an object by repeatedly cutting small slices from it

42. HOMEWORK Use each new vocabulary word correctly in a sentence for homework!!