'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' Terms - Vocabulary

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Here's a vocabulary list from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith. Use these terms for reference, study, and discussion.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Listed by appearance

Book One:

Chapters I-VI: tenement, ragamuffin, swagger, prophesied, speculation, cambric, interminable, prospered, berserk, vivaciously, persistent, concession, premonition, differentiate, immaculate, consumption, cleavered, monotonously, unconsumed, vestibule, profanity Book Two:

Chapters VII-XIV: intricately, fetching, illiteracy, peculiarity, indignantly, bucolic, sprig, skeptical, filigree, intricate, banshee, celibacy, repose, taunt, wheedling, disdain, dole

Book Three:

Chapters XV-XXIII: prodigiously, languorously, gallantly, dubious, sordidly, hordes, saunter, relegate, unorthodox

Chapters XXIV-XXIX: gratis, contempt, redeemed, dandified, conjecture, surreptitiously, vivacious, articulated, deprivation, thwarted, harassed, sodden, whopping, adornment

Chapters XXX-XXXVII: dainty, detachment, submissiveness, indignity, unflinchingly, lulled, putrid, irrelevantly, banister, shudder, debonair, lament, fastidious

Chapters XXXIII-XLII: stout, contrite, supplicatingly, contorted, infinitesimal

Book Four:

Chapters XLIII-XLVI: solicitously, contemptuously, poignantly, spats, genuflect, vestment

Chapters XLVII-LIII: vaudeville, rhetorically, mollified, obscurities, matriculate, munitions, gangling

Book Five:

Chapters LV-LVI: prohibition, jauntily, sachet

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Alphabetically Listed

• adornment
  
  
• articulated
  
  
• banister
  
  
• banshee
  
  
• berserk
  
  
• bucolic
  
  
• cambric
  
  
• celibacy
  
  
• cleavered
  
  
• concession
  
  
• conjecture
  
  
• consumption
  
  
• contempt
  
  
• contemptuously
  
  
• contorted
  
  
• contrite
  
  
• dainty
  
  
• dandified
  
  
• debonair
  
  
• deprivation
  
  
• detachment
  
  
• differentiate
  
  
• disdain
  
  
• dole
  
  
• dubious
  
  
• fastidious
  
  
• fetching
  
  
• filigree
  
  
• gallantly
  
  
• gangling
  
  
• genuflect
  
  
• gratis
  
  
• harassed
  
  
• hordes
  
  
• illiteracy
  
  
• immaculate
  
  
• indignantly
  
  
• indignity
  
  
• infinitesimal
  
  
• interminable
  
  
• intricate
  
  
• intricately
  
  
• irrelevantly
  
  
• jauntily
  
  
• lament
  
  
• languorously
  
  
• lulled
  
  
• matriculate
  
  
• mollified
  
  
• monotonously
  
  
• munitions
  
  
• obscurities
  
  
• peculiarity
  
  
• persistent
  
  
• poignantly
  
  
• premonition
  
  
• prodigiously
  
  
• profanity
  
  
• prohibition
  
  
• prophesied
  
  
• prospered
  
  
• putrid
  
  
• ragamuffin
  
  
• redeemed
  
  
• relegate
  
  
• repose
  
  
• rhetorically
  
  
• sachet
  
  
• saunter
  
  
• shudder
  
  
• skeptical
  
  
• sodden
  
  
• solicitously
  
  
• sordidly
  
  
• spats
  
  
• speculation
  
  
• sprig
  
  
• stout
  
  
• submissiveness
  
  
• supplicatingly
  
  
• surreptitiously
  
  
• swagger
  
  
• taunt
  
  
• tenement
  
  
• thwarted
  
  
• unconsumed
  
  
• unflinchingly
  
  
• unorthodox
  
  
• vaudeville
  
  
• vestibule
  
  
• vestment
  
  
• vivacious
  
  
• vivaciously
  
  
• wheedling
  
  
• whopping