Chapters+7-9


 * =Chapter 7=
 * ==embalming - process of preserving a dead body==
 * ==hoo-dooing - voodoo magic; curse; witchcraft==
 * ==whittles - To **whittle** is to use a knife to cut away thin shavings of wood. Sometimes, a whittler may actually end up carving a recognizable object.==


 * =Chapter 8=
 * ==touchous - touchy, sensitive.==
 * ==morphodite - Scout has misheard Miss Maudie, who would actually have said the word hermaphrodite. Technically, a hermaphrodite is an animal or plant that has both female and male reproductive organs. Of course, the children's snowman is not really a hermaphrodite, but it does have both male and female characteristics.==


 * ===Chapter 9===
 * ==guilelessness - **Guile** is craftiness and cunning in dealings with others. To be **guileless** is to have none of that craftiness. Here, Lee is being ironic since its obvious that Simon Finch didn't trust his daughters at all, and planned his house accordingly.==
 * ==nocturnal - nightly==
 * ==provocation - To **provoke** is to excite some sort of feeling; often anger or irritation. Uncle Jack tells Scout that, as far as cuss words are concerned, he doesn't see the use for them unless they are used when one is very angry or **provoked** to use them.==
 * ==whore-lady - prostitute==
 * ==(on) tenterhooks - anxious, on edge==


 * ==Chapter 10==
 * ==druthers - preference==


 * =Chapter 11=
 * ==Ivanhoe - is a [|historical fiction] novel by [|Sir Walter Scott] written in 1819, and set in [|12th-century England].==
 * ==shoo us out - make us leave (get out, go away, scram)==


 * =Chapter 12=
 * ==shelling peas - using thehands to remove peas from their pods==
 * ==Sunday habiliments - Sunday attire (what they wore on Sunday)==
 * ==asafoetida - a strong-smelling (like garlic) substance made from a parsley-like plant; often used in folk medicine to repel illness==
 * ==linin' the hymns - when one person sings a line of the hymn and the rest of the congregation repeats it. They do this because most of them can't read even if they could afford hymnals==

Characters

 * ==Chapter 9==
 * ==Uncle Jack==
 * ==Aunt Axlexandra (Finch) Hancock==
 * ==Francis Hancock==
 * ==Uncle Jimmy Hancock==
 * ==Simon Finch==


 * ==Chapter 10==
 * ==Tim Johnson==
 * ==Heck Tate==
 * ==Zeebo==


 * ==Chapter 11==
 * ==Jessie==


 * ==Chapter 12==
 * ==Lula==
 * ==Reverend Sykes==

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