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Night chapeter 1-9
vocab for night chapters 1-9
Question | Answer |
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absolutely; in an unqualified way | Profoundly |
likely to cause an epidemic disease | Pestilential |
trivial; not important | Insignificant |
completely lacking or empty | Devoid |
coaxing by flattery | Blandishments |
known widely and unfavorably; infamous | Notorious |
an eyeglass for one eye | Monocle |
leaving one area to settle in another | Emigration |
returning to health after an illness | Convalescent |
short, humorous stories | Anecdotes |
restrictions | constraint |
a family name | Surname |
necessary supplies, such as food | Provisions |
hindered; restricted | Encumbered |
sealed against the entry or escape of air | Hermetically |
clear understanding | Lucidity |
people who are expelled from a country | Deportees |
written discussion of a topic | Treatise |
sadness; depression | Melancholy |
an act of lamenting | lamentation |
not occupied, a great rift; hole | void |
to cause to loose flesh so as to become very thin | emaciated |
pass, go by | elapsed |
weak, small | feeble |
without rest | relentlessly |
lack of emotion or feeling | apathy |
expressing sorrow | plaintive |
harmful influence | contagion |
vigor; energy | vitality |
ashen; pallid | livid |
to take something away from | deprive |
remote, secret places | recesses |
the least desirable portion | dregs |
the limit of one's resources or endurance | tether |
left alone by death | bereaved |
to beat or hit | thrash |
disorderly | raucous |