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Night Chapter 1-9
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Proufoundly | Absolutley in an unquailified way |
| Pestilential | Likely to cause an epidemic disease |
| Insignificant | Trivial; Unimportant |
| Devoid | Completely lacking or emty |
| Blandishments | Coaxing by flattery |
| Notorious | Known widely and unfavorably; infamous |
| Constraint | Restrictions |
| Convalescent | Returning to health after an illness |
| Monocle | An eyeglass for one eye |
| Emigration | Leaving one area to settle in another |
| Surname | Family name |
| Provisions | Necessary supplies such as food |
| Hermetically | Sealed against the entry or escape of air |
| Anecdotes | Short humorous stories |
| Encumbered | Hindered; Restricted |
| Lucidity | Clear understanding |
| Deportees | People who were expelled from a country |
| Melancholy | Sadness; Depression |
| Treatise | Written discussion of a topic |
| Convoy | group of vehicles travelling 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 an disorderly |
| Sabotage | Treacherous action to defeat a cause |
| Lamentation | Grief; mourning |
| Void | Emptiness |
| Emaciated | made thin due to starvation |
| Elapsed | passed |
| Feeble | Lacking Strength, weak |
| Evacuation | withdrawing troops or civilians |
| Relentlessly | steadily; persistently |
| Apathy | Lack of feeling or emotion |
| Plaintive | express sorrow |
| Vitality | vigor; energy |
| Contagion | Harmful influence |
| Livid | Ashen; Pallid |
| Deprive | To take something away from |
| Recesses | Remote, secret places |
| Tether | Limit of one's resources or endurace |
| Bereaved | Left alone by death |
| Dregs | The least desireable portion |