To Kill a Mockingbird Group 2 - Period 1

1. iota

1.1. a very small quantity; jot; whit

2. perpetual

2.1. continuing or enduring forever; everlasting

3. temerity

3.1. reckless boldness; rashness.

3.2. He was punished for his temerity. She had the temerity to ask my boyfriend if she could go out with him should he and I ever break up. He defeated giant corporations—the auto industry, big pharma—back when no one else was even trying to; he had the temerity to believe that fighting for safety and quality and transparency was a quintessentially American thing to do.

4. unmitigated

4.1. Not softened or lessened.

4.2. The puppy with a broken leg experienced unmitigated suffering before the vet was called.

5. prerogative

5.1. a right, privilege, etc., limited to a specific person or to persons of a particular category

5.2. The public scorn of not-understood subjects has been the prerogative of elected officials, not scholars. If you'd rather sell the tickets than use them, that's your prerogative. It's a writer's prerogative to decide the fate of her characters.

5.3. prerogative

6. corroborative

6.1. To strengthen or support with other evidence; make more certain

7. chiffarobe

7.1. A closet like piece of furniture that combines a space for hanging things with drawers

7.2. He hung his coat up in his chiffarobe

7.3. chifforobe

8. entailments

8.1. A predetermined order of succession

8.2. the estate entailed. In our early experiments we did not test for mutual or combo entailment. "The CIER must be a center of excellence that promotes and fosters the entailment between academy, industry and government to impel the technological development.

9. apoplectic

9.1. overwhelmed with anger; extremely indiginant

9.2. The boy became apoplectic when his toy was stolen

9.3. apopletic