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GONZALEZ--Night

NIGHT BY ELIE WIESEL

TermDefinition
Deliverance (n)- liberation
Deportee (n)- an expelled or banished person
Haggard (adj)- looking tired from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn
Truncheon (n)- a club carried by a police officer; billy
Emigration (n) the act of leaving one country or region to settle in another
Morale (n)- emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence
Bombard (v)- to attack or assault
Fascist (n)- a person who believes in a system of government that rules by complete power using suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship
Edict (n)- a proclamation or command
Waiflike (adj.)- very thin and weak
Rabbi (n)- a Jewish scholar qualified to rule on questions of Jewish law
Cabbala (n)- mystical interpretation of the Old Testament
Anti-Semitic (adj) – any action that discriminates against or is prejudiced or hostile toward Jews
Exterminate (v)- eliminate, destroy
Premonition (n)- a feeling of anticipation or anxiety over a future event
Pillage (v)- to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war
Zionism (n) a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Isreal
Beadle (n)- a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, etc.
Hasidic (adj)- a word that describes a member of a sect that formed in Poland in the 18th century: characterized by its emphasis on mysticism, prayer, ritual, strictness, and joy
Ghetto (n)- a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions
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