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  1. nauseate
    upset and make ill
    Dizzy and nauseated, I lay on the cement and shook my head still, pounded my ears to silence, and heard Jem's voice: "Scout, get away from there, come on!"
  2. asinine
    devoid of intelligence
    Lastly, we were to stay away from that house until we were invited there, we were not to play an asinine game he had seen us playing or make fun of anybody on this street or in this town.
  3. douse
    wet thoroughly
    There went with the house the usual legend about the Yankees: one Finch female, recently engaged, donned her complete trousseau to save it from raiders in the neighborhood; she became stuck in the door to the Daughters' Staircase but was doused wit
  4. crumple
    gather something into small wrinkles or folds
    Tim Johnson leaped, flopped over and crumpled on the sidewalk in a brown-and-white heap.
  5. mutilate
    destroy or injure severely
    Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Eddy, people still looked at the Radley
  6. ravel
    disentangle or separate out
    "Gracious child, I was raveling a thread, wasn't even thinking about your father, but now that I am I'll say this: Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.
  7. arbitrate
    act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
    Jem arbitrated, awarded me first push with an extra time for Dill, and I folded myself inside the tire.
  8. ambrosia
    the food and drink of the gods
    But her cooking made up for everything: three kinds of meat, summer vegetables from her pantry shelves; peach pickles, two kinds of cake and ambrosia constituted a modest Christmas dinner.
  9. whittle
    cut small bits or pare shavings from
    Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Eddy, people still looked at the Radley
  10. amble
    walk leisurely
    They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything.
  11. begrudge
    be envious of or feel annoyance toward
    I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit."
  12. gouge
    an impression in a surface, as made by a blow
    "Don't blame me when he gouges your eyes out.
  13. suffocate
    deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
    Ground, sky and houses melted into a mad palette, my ears throbbed, I was suffocating.
  14. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
    It was obstreperous, disorderly and abusive -"
    "You gonna give me a chance to tell you?
  15. clapper
    metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound
    Dill grabbed the clapper; in the silence that followed, I wished he'd start ringing it again.
  16. chameleon
    lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color
    She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men's coveralls, but after her five o'clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.
  17. perpetrate
    perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
    You've perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard.
  18. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
    But by the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions, and it was then that Dill gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.
  19. magisterial
    of or relating to a civil officer who administers the law
    She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men's coveralls, but after her five o'clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.
  20. trudge
    walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
    He trudged along, dragging the pole behind him on the sidewalk.
Created on 三月 1, 2013 (updated 三月 21, 2013)

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