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'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' Terms - Vocabulary

Betty Smith's famous novel

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Study Guide 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

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