The Only Use
discern
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Edited)
- Atticus kept us in fits that evening, gravely reading columns of print about a man who sat on a flagpole for no discernible reason, which was reason enough for Jem to spend the following Saturday aloft in the treehouse.
p. 35.7discernible = understandable
Definitions:
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(1)
(discern) to notice or understand something -- often something that is not obvious
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)