Title: STUDY: Vocabulary TKaM Chs 8-14
Course: English 9 (B)

Vocabulary TKaM Chs 8-14

Vocabulary Words - To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 8-14

innate | adj | existing in one from birth; inborn; native | innate musical talent; innateunderstanding of right and wrong. Root: nasc/nat = born
vehement | adj | characterized by intensity of emotions or convictions, or forcefulness of expression; acting with great force or energy; strong | "The struggle was long and vehement; but his sense of duty would not be stifled or enfeebled, and finally triumphed over every impediment" (Charles Brockden Brown, Three Gothic Novels). See Word of the Day
umbrage | n | offense, annoyance, displeasure; shade or shadows | to feel umbrage at a social snub; to giveumbrage to someone; to take umbrageat someone's rudeness. Think of Prof. Umbridge: dark, shadowy, and always displeased with Harry.
undulate | v | to form or move in waves | “Rather than tuna, several hundred white-sided dolphins come into focus,undulating crisply through the sea surface below” (Carl Safina, Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas). See Word of the Day
garish | adj | gaudy, excessively ornate; glaring | "garish lights of Las Vegas" / "I thought of those cold scenes of his, with their picturesque peasants and cypresses and olive-trees. They must look queer in theirgarish frames on the walls of the peasant house" (W. Somerset Maugham, Moon & Sixpence).
formidable | adj | arousing fear, dread or alarm; difficult to defeat | "a formidable opponent"
obliquely | adv | indirectly; not in a straightforward manner | "His wife had never shown any jealousy of Mattie, but of late she had grumbled increasingly over the house-work and found oblique ways of attracting attention to the girl's inefficiency" (Edith Wharton,Ethan Frome).
pensive | adj | musingly or dreamily thoughtful; suggestive of sad thoughtfulness, melancholy | visual image: The Thinker. “He sat pensively thinking about the devastation in Haiti.” Root: pens/pend/ pond= to weigh; hang down
infallible | adj | incapable of making a mistake | "But human beings are fallible. We know we all make mistakes" (Robert S. McNamara, "et al.", Argument Without End). Root: fallere, "to deceive." It is related to fail, false, fallacy, fault, andfaucet! See Word of the Day