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A vocabulary word list for Johnny Tremain is arranged in order of appearance:
  • Chapter I: Up and About (pp. 1-31)
    Chapter 1: granaries, apprentice, stout, wallow, breeches, swinish, infernally, blandly, flaccid, annealing, revel, ethereal, spindly, innumerable, crucible
    Chapter 2: venerable, groping, deacon, gruel, petticoat, genteel, snicker, trencher, pious, divot, pinafore
    Chapters 3-6: splayed, cheeky, affluence, garlands, repousse, replica, kinship
  • Chapter II: The Pride of Your Power (pp. 32-49)
    Chapters 1-5: scroll, beaux, tyranny, eloquence, piteous, insufferable, poultice, laudanum, yoke, hearth, piety
  • Chapter III: An Earth of Brass (pp. 50-72)
    Chapters 1-5: genial, frayed, unruffled, aloof, maimed, belligerent, arrogance, diffidently, impotence, gumption, gallows, spinster, tattered, ciphering, wattles
  • Chapter IV: The Rising Eye (pp. 71-92)
    Chapters 1-5: sanctuary, exuberant, sniveling, translucent, repeal, Tories, Whig, hurly-burly, spinet, regal, apparition, nonchalance, florid, pallet, perturbed, taut, enigmatic, imposture
  • Chapter V: The Boston Observer (pp. 93-113)
    Chapters 1-4: seditious, fallow, repentance, scurvy, knave, fagots, smooch, equitation, talon, cavorting, notoriously, wary, dawdling, surtout, careen, atrophy, abet, expansive, truss
  • Chapter VI: Salt-Water Tea (pp. 114-138)
    Chapters 1-6: grievance, placard, treason, obdurate, scullery, forlorn, sullen, pullet, truckle bed, unison, persevere, soot, demeanor, jargon
  • Chapter VII: The Fiddler's Bill (pp. 139-166)
    Chapters 1-5: paroxysm, submission, gesticulate, oppression, berth, wharf (wharves), inundate, yokel, misdemeanor, fret, gawky, contradict, commandeer, ruefully, belligerently, provincials, ogress, rowel, lascivious, impudent
  • Chapter VIII: A World To Come (pp. 167-193)
    Chapters 1-5: milling about, fripperies, routed, chaise, lucid, intoxicated
  • Chapter IX: The Scarlet Deluge (pp. 194-213)
    Chapters 1-5: enmity, garrulous, indolent, concoction, maudlin, bilious, lassitude, qualm
  • Chapter X: "Disperse Ye Rebels"! (pp. 214-230)
    Chapters 1-4: queue, impersonate, disconsolate, sullenly, garret, quiver, inebriated, disperse
  • Chapter XI: Yankee Doodle (pp. 231-250)
    Chapters 1-5: haggard, lenient, glibly, sundry, tremolo, maliciously
  • Chapter XII: A Man Can Stand Up (pp. 251-269)
    Chapters 1-5: trod, prophecy, gaudy, doff, belfry, gawk, trivial, jubilant

    Thank you, Janice 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 Johnny Tremain written by Esther Forbes.
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