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Night Chapters 1-9
Vocab Night Chapters 1-9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Profoundly | Absolutely, in an un-qualifying way |
| Insignificant | Trivial; not important |
| Pestilential | Likely to cause and epidemic disease |
| Devoid | Completely lacking; empty |
| Notorious | Known widely and unfavorably; infamous |
| Blandishments | Coaxing by flattery |
| Anecdotes | short, humorous stories |
| Encumbered | Hindered; restricted |
| Deportees | People who are expelled form a country |
| Convalescent | returning to health after an illness |
| Hermetically | Sealed against the entry of escape of air |
| Lucidity | Clear understanding |
| Constraint | restrictions |
| Monocle | an eyeglass for one eye |
| Emigration | Leaving one area to settle in another |
| Provisions | Necessary supplies, such as food |
| Melancholy | Sadness; depression |
| Treatise | Written discussion of a topic |
| Surname | A family name |
| Convoy | 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 |
| Void | empitiness |
| emaciated | made thin due to starvation |
| elapsed | passed |
| Feeble | Lacking strength, weak |
| Evacuation | withdrawing troops or civilians |
| relentlessly | steadily; persistently |
| Plaintive | Expressing Sorrow |
| Apathy | Lack of emotion or feeling |
| Vitality | Vigor; energy |
| Deprive | To take something away from |
| Recess | Remote secret places |
| Bereaved | Left alone by death |
| Dregs | The least desirable portions |
| Contagion | Harmful Influence |
| Livid | Ashen; pallid |
| Tether | The limit of one's recourses or endurance |