L= lines in the novel; D= definition; S= new sentence
1. Assuaged
L: When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.
D: To make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
S: Jem can now play football since his fear of playing football were assuaged.
2. Apothecary
L: All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess.
D: A druggist; a pharmacist.
S: The father’s father of Scout is called Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary.
3. Mindful
L: Mindful of John Wesley’s strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling …
D: Attentive, aware, or careful (usually fol. by of): mindful of one's responsibilities.
S: George is mindful of his duties.
4. Dictum
L: So Simon, having forgotten his teacher’s dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves …
D: An authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion.
S: One of my friend likes to apply dictums in his daily conversation.
5. Taciturn
L: She married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock.
D: Inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
S: I have a taciturn friend who is always unwilling to talk even when he’s on a meeting.
6. Spittoon
L: Atticus’s office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard and an unsullied Code of Alabama.
D: a receptacle for spit, usually in a public place
S: Mary is fond of collecting many different types of spittoons from all over the world.
7. Synonymous
L: … Atticus had urged them to accept the state’s generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass.
D: Having the character of synonyms or a synonym; equivalent in meaning; expressing or implying the same idea.
S: Poverty is not synonymous with degradation.
8. Mare
L: The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb’s leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the-son-of-a-bitch-had-it-coming-to-him was a good enough defense for anybody.
D: A fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
S: The owner of that farm kept twenty mares for breeding.
9. Derived
L: But after getting Uncle Jack started, Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.
D: To receive or obtain from a source or origin (usually fol. by from).
S: Many of the English words are derived from Greek.
10. Slop
L: In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop.
D: To spill or splash (liquid).
S: In rainy days, I have to slop through the road to get to school.
11. Talcum
L: Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.
D: a green-to-gray, soft mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg 3 (Si 4 O 10 )(OH) 2 , unctuous to the touch, and occurring usually in foliated or compact masses, used in making lubricants, talcum powder, electrical insulation, etc.
S: The baby giggles when his mother spreads talcum over its body after a hot comfortable bath.
12. Tyrannical
L: She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember.
D: Of or characteristic of a tyrant.
S: Jack is a tyrannical boss, so all his subordinates hate him.
13. Entity
L: The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end.
D: Something that has a real existence
S: The virus exits the cell as a single entity.
14. Jutted
L: The Radely Place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house.
D: To extend beyond the main body or line; project.
S: The balcony of the museum jutted out over the beautiful garden.
15. Shingle
L: Rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda.
D: A thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
S: The roofs of the palaces in Beijing are covered with beautiful golden shingles.
