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To Kill A Mockingbird Vocabulary Set 3: Chapters 21-31

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Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Use any clues you find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge,
and write what you think the underlined words part of speech. Then, find its dictionary definition, word parts and write your own sentences.

Vocabulary from text

1. "...we glimpsed Calpurnia's
indignant profile...(p. 210)."
2. "Jem made a feral noise in his
throat (p. 217)."
3. " '...can't any Christian judges an'
lawyers make up for heathen juries...
(p. 219).' "
4. "I looked up and his face was
vehement (p. 223)."
5. "...I heard Mrs. Grace Merriweather
giving a report in the living room on
the squalid lives of the Mrunas...(p.
231)."
6. "For certainly Mrs. Merriweather
was the most devout lady in
Maycomb (p. 233)."
7. " ' Hypocrites, Mrs. Perkins, born
hypocrites...(p. 236).' "

Part of
Speech

Definition

Base
Word

Prefix
(es)/
Suffix
(es)

MY Original Sentencewith end marks!

Vocabulary from text

8. "...but when it comes down to the
line the veneer's mighty thin (p.
243)."
9. "...a publication spurious in the
eyes of Miss Gates, our teacher (p.
246)."
10. "...lost in fruity metaphors and
florid diction...(p. 251)."
11. "...our classmates mercifully let us
forget our father's eccentricities (p.
253)."
12. "We had slowed to a cautious
gait...(p. 258)."
13. "It's owner said, 'Uff!' and tried to
catch my arms, but they were tightly
pinioned (p. 265)."
14. "The man was walking with the
staccato steps of someone carrying a
load too heavy for him (p. 266)."
15. "...I pointed to the man I the
corner, but brought my arm down
quickly lest Atticus reprimand me for
pointing. (p. 273)."
16. "If Atticus could blandly
introduce me to Boo Radley at a time
like this...(p. 273)."
17. "...if I connived at something like
this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye...
(p. 276)."

Part of
Speech

Definition

Base
Word

Prefixes/
Suffixes

MY Original Sentence