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flood - линути потоком
ancestry - походження
ivory - кольору слонової кістки
side-clasped - із застібкою збоку
chant - говорити співуче, співати монотонно
embroidery - вишитий виріб
Cyrillic - кирилиця
kerchiefed - покритий хустиною
loose - вільний
crack - лускати (насіння)
seeds - насіння
stoop - ганок зі сходинками
odour - запах
merchantman - купець
pier - пристань
homogenization - однорідність
Ellis Island - острів, де був розташований центр, який приймав
іммігрантів
Greek Orthodox Church - Грецька православна церква

During the Industrial Revolution great numbers of workers were
needed to run the machines, to build the railroads and to develop the
lands. To meet this need, crowds of immigrants filled the ships from
the Old World and poured into the United States. Millions of
foreigners streamed into New York City during the 19th and early
20th centuries.
The first wave of immigration which reached a peak in the 1850s,
consisted largely of English, Irish and Germans. The second wave,
from 1860 through 1890, included many Scandinavians. The third
wave, which came after 1890, was so different from its predecessors
that it is often called the "new immigration". It is consisted mostly of
people of Mediterranean and Slavic origins.
New York is the most polyglot of all American cities.
Ellis Island in New York's Upper Bay was the nation's major port
of entrance, each year admitting up to 90 percent of all immigrants to
the United States. When the centre, opened in 1892, was closed in
1954, it had handled some 20 million people. The island was called
the "Island of Tears" in those days.