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STUDENT NAME ___________________________________________________ DATE__________________
V. Chapters 22–26 During Reading
Build Your Vocabulary
Read the sentences below. On the line, write your definition of the word in bold type. Then, on
another sheet of paper, use that word in a new sentence of your own.
1. “Atticus was standing under the street light looking as though nothing had happened: his vest
was buttoned, his collar and tie were neatly in place, his watch-chain glistened, he was his
impassive self again.”
impassive: ______________________________________________________________
2. “‘I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial, if he had any to begin with.’”
credibility: ______________________________________________________________
3. “He said he didn’t have any quarrel with the rape statute, none whatever, but he did have deep
misgivings when the state asked for and the jury gave a death penalty on purely circumstantial
evidence.”
statute: __________________________________________________________________
4. “I looked up, and his face was vehement. ‘There’s nothing more sickening to me than a lowgrade
white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance.’”
vehement: ______________________________________________________________
5. “‘I guess it’s to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom’s.’”
sordid: __________________________________________________________________
6. “Rather nervous, I took a seat beside Miss Maudie....Ladies in bunches always filled me with
vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere....”
apprehension: ____________________________________________________________
7. “Miss Stephanie eyed me suspiciously, decided that I meant no impertinence, and contented
herself with, ‘Well, you won’t get very far until you start wearing dresses more often.’”
impertinence: ____________________________________________________________
8. “‘I’m sure you do,’ Miss Maudie said shortly....When Miss Maudie was angry her brevity
was icy.”
brevity: ________________________________________________________________
9. “Maycomb had lost no time in getting Mr. Ewell’s views of Tom’s demise and passing them
along through that English Channel of gossip, Miss Stephanie Crawford.”
demise: ________________________________________________________________
10. “I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part
in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley—what reasonable recluse wants
children peeping through his shutters....”
recluse: __________________________________________________________________
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