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Night vocabwords
elie wiesel
Question | Answer |
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billeted | given room and board |
blandishments | flattering statements |
compulsory | required mandatory |
congeal | to solidify as if freezing to jell |
crucible | a vessel that heats substances to high temperatures |
emaciated | extremely thin, scrawny, gaunt, starved |
emigration | to leave ones country |
encumber | to burden, weigh down |
entity | something that has separate and distinct existence and reality |
haggard | appearing worn or exhausted |
harangued | to deliver a speech with strong feeling |
hermetically | so as to be airtight, not allowing air to flow out |
lorries | trucks |
lucidity | clear and comprehensible |
melancholy | mournful depressed soberly and gloomily thoughtless |
nocturnal | relating to or occurring in the night |
oblivion | the condition or quality of being completely forgotten |
pious | deeply religious |
reverie | a daydream or the state of day dreaming |
summarily | immediately w/o notice, speedily |
truncheons | billy club baton carried by authority figures |
unremitting | without stopping |
hasidic | jewish sect of mystics who believe in a joyful worship of god |
synagogue | a jewish place of worship |
cabbala | an occult jewish philosophy based on mystical interpretation of the scriptures |
talmud | book of detailed expositions and mystical interpretation of the scriptures |
gestapo | secret nazi police force |
rabbi | a scholar and teacher of jewish law a jewish spiritual leader |
zionism | a movement for reestablishment of a jewish state now a movement supporting the jewish state of israel |
emigration | the act of leaving ones country |
billet | to lodge to house |
passover | a jewish holiday celebratin the deliverence of the hebrews from slavery in egypt |
treatise | a formal article or book on a particular subject |
expound | to state in detail, to explain |
edict | an official public proclamation or order issued by authority |
phylacteries | small cases holding copies of passages from scripture worn on the forehead and left arm during weekday morning prayers |
compatriot | a fellow countryman |
guerrilla | a oldier who makes suprise attacks and raids behind enemy lines |
expulsion | a driving out by force |
pillage | to loot to rob of property |
constraint | restriction especially of the feelings and behavior |
SS | abbreviation of schutzstaffel, nazi special police force |
incite | the urge to act/provoke |
unremittingly | constantly without interruption |
bestial | like a beast |
kapos | nazi concentration camp prisoners who were given special privileges in turn for supervising other prisoners |
compulsory | something that must be done |
wizened | shriveled dried up |
blandishment | a flattering remark meant to be persuasive |
sanctity | holiness |
numerology | a system built around numbers of foretelling the future |
reprieve | a postponement of punishment, relief |
aryan | a term by the nazis to mean a caucasian person of non jewish lineage |
raucous | hoarse rough sounding |
Rosh hashanah | the jewish new year the spiritual new year including prayer and rituals |
benediction | a formal blessing in a religious service |
implore | to beg beseech |
lamentation | an expression of grief or sadness |
yom kippur | the holiest day in the jewish calender, day of atonement, fasting and prayer for forgiveness |
interminable | endless |
emaciated | abnormally thin due to starvation |
meager | of small quantity |
crucible | a severe test or trial |
sage | a very wise person as a result of age and experience |
calvary | where jesus was crucified |
derision | scorn, ridicule |
dysentary | intestinal inflammation causing abnormal pain and diarrhea |
red army | regular army of soviet union |
annihilate | to completely destroy |
summarily | promptly |
mountebank | a fake a charlatan a trickster |
indeterminate | vague subtle |
encumbrance | a burden |
apathy | lack of interest |
inert | motionless |