To Kill a Mockingbird

Vocabulary #3

auspicious

• favoring success

quell

•extinguish; put down; quiet

edify

• instruct; correct morally

accost

• to confront boldly

libel

•defamatory statement; act of writing something that smears a person’s character

afflict

• to cause suffering

ingenuous

•naïve and trusting; unsophisticated

degenerate

•become worse; deteriorate

undulate

•move with a wavelike motion

viscous

•sticky; gluey

innate

• inborn

obscure

•make unclear

resilient

•elastic; having the power of springing back

infallible

•unerring; perfect