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A vocabulary word list for I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is arranged in order of appearance:
Chapters 1-5: snout, musty, ceaseless, kerosene, commissary, paranoia, boll, abacus, penitentiary, jest, rakish, astraddle, scurry, heinous, bogey man, tonic, aghast, preserves, aptly, adder
Chapters 6-10: brimstone, deacon, flinty, pulpit, chifforobe, bombastic, brood, quadroon, octoroon, lofty, saloon, sibling, reminisce, appellation
Chapters 11-15: squirm, torturous, violator, instinctive, smirking, forfeit, impudent, lynching, benign, bungalow, crumpet, tribulation
Chapters 16-20: debutante, embroider, sachet, mumbledypeg, apprehension, plod, berate, extinction, illusion, swagger, blasphemous, hoity-toity, vaunt, pendulum, assail, maim, snicker, treacherous, monitor, coherent
Chapters 21-25: metamorphosis, imperceptible, placate, voodoo, banshee, serge, ordurous, ghoulish, reminiscence, pique, jittery, perfunctory, palpable, puce, elocution, diminish, contemptuous, scoundrel, vernacular, confrontation, djinn
Chapters 26-30: lax, pince-nez, goulash, spontaneous, untwine, desiccate, impermanence, maraud, shroud, dauntless, animosity, aura, frivolous, soliloquy, pantomine, inducement, elicit, proposition, Lucullan, manor, corrugated, ramshackle, quizzical, lofty, reveler, incomprehensible, bumbling, careen, cacophony, winsomely
Chapters 31-35: pretentious, piteous, keen, plague, perplex, impudence, laceration, Brobdingnag, deliquent, jitterbug, magnanimous, zoot suit, alum, visor, recourse, ocher, knapsack, chenille, jaunty, inflection, excruciating, tripartite, belligerence, libido, ostracize, hermaphrodite, hoard, unrelenting, malaise, suave, unscrupulous
Thank you, Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. |
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