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Sweet America Ch. 1

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landing the area between flights (sets) of stairs
tenements the crowded apartment buildings where many immigrants to America lived in the late 1800s
linger to stay somewhere a long time
insolent rude and disrespectful
steamship the type of boat that brought many immigrants to america
droughts times when there is little or no rain and plants and food do not grow well
peasant a term for a poor person who lived in the countryside, usually on a farm
jammed together crowded close together
vanish to disappear, be gone
flimsy very weak, easy to break
prodded pushed and touched
steerage the section on a ship for the poorest passengers with very bad conditions
porthole a round window on a boat
stench a very bad smell
testy annoyed
clamber over to climb over
contagious can be spread from one person to another
inseparable always together
beaming smiling and very happy
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