1. 1. APOTHECARY (N) A pharmacist
Sentence: All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trading apothecary from Cornwall…

2. 2. ARBITRATE (V) 3. ASININE (Adj)
To settle or decide a dispute; to judge
Sentence: Jem arbitrated [the argument], awarded me first push with an extra time for Dill, and I folded myself inside the tire.
3. ASININE (Adj)
Sentence: ...we were not to play an asinine game he had seen us playing...
Foolish; unintelligent; stupid in a silly way

3. 4. ASSUAGE (V) 5. AUSPICIOUS (Adj) to lessen or to calm
Sentence: ...Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged...
to lessen or to calm
5. AUSPICIOUS (Adj)
Favorable; fortunate
Sentence: The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first.

4. 6. CHATTELS (N) 7. CONTEMPTUOUS (Adj) slaves
Sentence: So Simon, having forgotten his teacher’s [pronouncement] on human chattels, bought three slaves…
7. CONTEMPTUOUS (Adj)
Showing or expressing hate or disdain; acting haughty or looking down on others
Sentence: He gave a short contemptuous snort.

5. 8. CONTENTIOUS (Adj) 9. DIMINUTIVE (Adj)
Always ready to argue or fight
Sentence: “Ain't got no mother,” was the answer, “and their [father’s] right contentious.”
9. DIMINUTIVE (Adj)
Smaller than ordinary
Sentence: He was among the most diminutive of men...

6. 10. DISAPPROBATION (N) 11. ENTAILMENT (N) Disapproval
Sentence: I'm afraid our activities would be received with considerable disapprobation by the authorities.
11. ENTAILMENT (N)
Law stating that land can only be inherited by one’s children; the property cannot be broken up and sold to others
Sentence: After a dreary conversation in our living room one night about his entailment...

7. 12. FRACTIOUS (Adj) 13. ILLICITLY (Adv)
Quickly angered; quarrelsome; mean or unruly
Sentence: ...she had at last seen the error of her fractious ways...
13. ILLICITLY (Adv)
Unlawful; unauthorized or improper
Sentence: I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.

8. 14. IMPOTENT (Adj) 15. INDIGENOUS (Adj) powerless; helpless
Sentence: Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South...
15. INDIGENOUS (Adj)
from a particular region or country; native to
Sentence: The class murmured apprehensively, should she choose to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.

9. 16. NEBULOUS (Adj) 17. PREDILECTION (N)
Cloudy, hazy, or vague; unclear
Sentence: Boo’s transition from the basement to back home was nebulous in Jem’s memory.
17. PREDILECTION (N)
A preference, or a preferred way of doing something
Sentence: The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb.

10. 18. SECEDE (V) To break away; to make a formal withdrawal
Sentence: When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama...

11. 19. TACITURN (Adj) Almost always silent
Sentence: She married a taciturn man…