Download To Kill a Mockingbird, Ch. 2 Vocab and allusions

To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter 2 Allusions
Bullfinch: an allusion to Bulfinch's Mythology, a famous collection of Greek myths. Jem
is kidding, of course, but his reference to Bullfinch's Mythology is another indication of
how much of a reader Scout has always been.
Dewey Decimal System: A system for organizing books in libraries. Contrary to what
Jem tells Scout, this Dewey has nothing to do with John Dewey, a theorist of education.
Diaries of Lorenzo Dow: Lorenzo Dow (1777 - 1834) was a Methodist preacher who
travelled throughout the country, including the state of Alabama.
Here's a quarter: If a quarter doesn't seem like enough, remember that, during this
portion of the Great Depression, a nickel bought a loaf of bread, a movie was a dime, and
gasoline could be had for sixteen cents a gallon.
The crash: the Stock Market Crash of 1929 which led to the Great Depression.
Union suit: a one-piece garment of underwear with a buttoned flap in the back.
Union: one side in the Civil War (the North)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter Two Vocabulary
"Jem condescended to take me to school the first day...."
"She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish…"
The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the
peculiarities indigenous to that region…"
"When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded
from Alabama…"
"...they wore cunning little clothes..."
"...the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms…"
"...were immune to imaginative literature…"
"I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the
daily papers…"
"...Jem cut me from the covey of first-graders in the schoolyard…"
"Walter Cunningham's face told everybody in the first grade he had hookworms…"
" '...no church baskets and no scrip stamps…"
"After a dreary conversation in our living room one night about his entailment…"
"With Christmas came a crate of smilax and holly…"
"Entailment was only a part of Mr. Cunningham's vexations…"
" 'If I could have explained these things to Miss Caroline, I would have saved myself
some inconvenience and Miss Caroline subsequent mortification…”
"My sojourn in the corner was a short one…"
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2. catawba worms (n): ____________________________________________________
3. condescended (vb):
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4. covey (n): _____________________________________________________________
5. crimson (adj): _________________________________________________________
6. cunning (adj): _________________________________________________________
7. entailment (n):
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8. hookworms (n): ________________________________________________________
9. immune (adj): _________________________________________________________
10. indigenous (adj): ______________________________________________________
11. scrip stamps (n):
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12. seceded (v): __________________________________________________________
13. smilax (n): ___________________________________________________________
14. sojourn (n): __________________________________________________________
15. subsequent mortification (adj + n):
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16. vexations (n):
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17. wallowing illicitly (v + adv):
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