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Nite Chapter 1-9
Question | Answer |
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Emigration | leaving one area to settle in another |
Treatise | written discussion of a topic |
Anecdotes | short, humorous stories |
Insignificant | trivial; not important |
Encumbered | hindered; restricted |
Deportees | people who are expelled from a country |
Profoundly | absolutely; in an unqualified way |
Melancholy | sadness;depression |
Surname | a family name |
PESTILENTIAL | like to cause an epidemic disease |
DEVOID | completely lacking or empty |
MONOCLE | an eyeglass for one eye |
CONSTRAINT | restrictions |
CONVALESCENT | returning to health after an illness |
BLANDISHMENTS | coaxing by flattery |
NOTORIOUS | known widely and unfavorably; infamous |
PROVISIONS | necessary supplies, such as food |
HERMETICALLY | sealed against the entry or escape of air |
LUCIDITY | clear understanding |
convey | group of vehicles traveling together |
Frenzy | Violent mental agitation or wild excitement |
Torment | to cause physical pain or mental anguish |
Thrash | beat;hit |
Latter | second of two |
Raucous | boisterous and disorderly |
Sabotage | treacherous action to defeat a cause |
Lamentation | grief; mourning |
Emaciated | made thin do to starvation |
Elapsed | passed |
Feeble | lacking strength, weak |
Evacuation | with drawing troops or civilians |
Relentlessly | steadily; persistently |
PLAINTIVE | expressing sorrow |
APATHY | lack of emotion or feeling |
CONTAGION | harmful influence |
BEREAVED | left alone by death |
RECESSES | remote, secret places |
LIVID | ashen; pallid |
VITALITY | vigor; energy |
DEPRIVE | to take something away from |
TETHER | the limit of one's resources or endurance |
DREGS | the least desirable portion |
VOID | emptiness |