CliffsNotes on Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Tamara Castleman

CliffsNotes on Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Tamara Castleman

Author:Tamara Castleman [Castleman, Tamara]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011-05-01T16:00:00+00:00


Glossary

johnson grass a forage and pasture grass, widespread in the southern U.S., often as a weed.

monkey-puzzle bushes any araucaria tree; esp., a tall tree with stiff pointed leaves, edible nuts, and hard wood, widely grown as an ornamental.

ecclesiastical of the church, the organization of the church, or the clergy.

privy a toilet; esp., an outhouse.

acquiescence the act of acquiescing; agreement or consent without protest.

snipe hunt practical joke in which the victim is made to sit in the woods with a bag and two sticks in an attempt to capture a creature that doesn’t exist.

aggregation a group or mass of distinct things or individuals.

fey strange or unusual in any of certain ways, as, variously, eccentric, whimsical, visionary, elfin, shy, otherworldly.

Braxton Bragg Commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the summer of 1862 until the end of 1863. Bragg had the distinction of being both recklessly offensive as well as hesitant to the point of ineffectiveness at various times in his career—sometimes in the same battle.

popped-the-whip this is in reference to a game in which a group of children line up together hand-in-hand; one end of the line slings itself forward, causing the child at the other end of the line to receive a violent snap.

solicitor in the U.S., a lawyer serving as official law officer for a city, department, etc..

champertous having to do with champerty, an act by which a person not concerned in a lawsuit makes a bargain with one of the litigants to help maintain the costs of the suit in return for a share of any proceeds: illegal in most U.S. states.



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