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Nite Chapter 1-9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |