Week One - Spelling and Vocabulary List

This week's spelling/vocabulary words are taken from To Kill A Mockingbird


Assuage - verb
1. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate.
2. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve.
3. to soothe, calm, or mollify.

Amble - verb
1. to go at a slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter.
2. (of a horse) to go at a slow pace with the legs moving in lateral pairs and usually having a four-beat rhythm.

Apothecary - noun
1. a druggist; a pharmacist.
2. a pharmacy or drugstore.

Chattel - noun
1. Law. a movable article of personal property.
2. any article of tangible property other than land, buildings, and other things annexed to land.
3. a slave.

Concede - verb
1. to acknowledge as true, just, or proper; admit.
2. to acknowledge (an opponent's victory, score, etc.) before it is officially established.
3. to grant as a right or privilege; yield.

Dictum - noun
1. an authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion.
2. a saying; maxim.

Divert - verb
1. to turn aside from a path or course; deflect.
2. to distract from serious occupation; entertain or amuse.

Domicile - noun
a place of residence; abode; house or home.

Entity - noun
something that has a real existence; thing.

Flivver - noun
1. Older slang. an automobile, especially one that is small, inexpensive, and old.
2. Slang. something of unsatisfactory quality or inferior grade.

Illicit - adj.
1. not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.
2. disapproved of or not permitted for moral or ethical reasons.

Malevolent - adj.
1. wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious.
2. evil; harmful; injurious

Sweltering - adj.
1. suffering oppressive heat.
2. characterized by oppressive heat; sultry.

Taciturn - adj.
1. inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
2. dour, stern, and silent in expression and manner.

Unsullied - adj.
not spoiled or made impure