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Night chapeter 1-9
vocab for night chapters 1-9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |