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Devil's Arithmetic
Vocab for Novel Read in 7th grade at Wilson Central Junior High
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Saga | a long story of a hero |
| Cuff | to hit or strike |
| gruesome | horrible, frightening |
| Desecrate | to disrespect somthing sacred |
| Hysteria | emotional panic |
| Rummage | to search through hurriedly; TRansack |
| Ominous | threatening |
| Chaos | total disorder or confusion |
| Arbitrary | without logical reason |
| Fervor | intense emotion |
| Scapegoat | an innocent person blamed for the problems of another |
| Brainwashing | use of foceful, intense methods to change beleifs |
| Genocide | The systematic elimination of a people or nation |
| Propaganda | distoration of the truth |
| Prejudice | an attitude toward a person or group of people formed without adequate information |
| Holocaust | Term used to refer to the systematic murder of 6 million Jews by Nazis between 1933 and 1945 |
| Final Solution | The Nazi term for the annihilation of the jews of Europe |
| Swastika | Symbol of the Nazi party |
| Selection | procedure used to detemine wh wold live and who would die in death and labor camps. usually carried out by doctors |
| Auschwitz | extermination camp |
| "Arbeit Macht Frei" | Work brings Freedom |
| Organize | Prisoners took back what the Nazis took from them this helped them to survive |