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Night P.1 Vocab
AP Vocabulary "Night"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Deportees | person who is expelled from home or country by authority |
| Gestapo | the German secret police under Nazi rule |
| Kabbalah | The ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible |
| Insinuated | suggest or hint (something negative) in an indirect and unpleasant way |
| Talmud | body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law and legend |
| Rosh Hashanah | Jewish New Year festival |
| Exterminate | destroy comepletely |
| Annihilate | obliterate |
| Liquidate | Wind up the affairs of (a company or firm) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets. (settle) |
| Fascist | extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice |
| Regent | person appointed to administer a country because the monarch is a minor is absent or incapacitated |
| Abstract | not having concrete existence |
| Disquieting | inducing feelings of anxiety or worry |
| Anti-Semitic | hating Jews |
| Strategic | carefully designed to serve a particular purpose or advantage |
| Dispersed | go or cause to go in different directions or to different destinations |
| Diplomacy | art of dealing with people in a sensitive and effective way |
| Emigration | migration from native country in order to settle in another |
| exasperated | irritated intensely |
| resigned | give up |
| inquisitive | curious or inquiring |
| confindent | showing certainty about something |
| Euphemistic | mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when reffering to something unpleasant or embarassing |
| prescient | foreshadowing |
| genocide | to wipe out an entire ethnic group |