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Vocabulary
vocab for Night and The night of Anne Frank
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anti-semitism | hostility to or prejudice against Jews. (noun) Hitler killed over 6 million people because of his anti-semitism. |
| appalled | greatly dismay or horrify. (verb) The Jews were appalled after they reached the concentration camps. |
| concentration camp | place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners are deliberately imprisoned sometimes to provide forced labor or be killed (noun) There were many concentration camps that held over thousands of hostage to later then be killed. |
| disgruntled | angry or dissatisfied. (verb) I was disgruntled when i found out my cheesecake was eaten. |
| emigrated | he act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.(verb) A lot of illegal people emigrated before they got deported. |
| Gestapo | The German secret police under Nazi rule. (proper noun) |
| inarticulate | Unable to express one's ideas or feelings clearly or easily.(adj) |
| indignantly | a manner indicating anger or annoyance at something perceived as unfair.(adv) |
| intolerable | Unable to be endured. |
| latkes | Jewish pancakes made out of potatoes (n) |
| mercurial | change moods or mind quickly (adj) |
| ostentatiously | to be showy in order to gain attention or to impress others (adv) |
| rabbi | a Jewish scholar or teacher, especially one who studies or teaches Jewish law.(noun) |
| ration | a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.(noun) |
| remorse | deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed.(noun) |
| pandemonioum | chaos, uproar, upheaval (n) |
| pogrom | an organized attack (Kristallnacht) (n) |
| stealthily | secretly (adv) |
| wallow | to roll in mud or water; to be self-indulgent (wallow in self-pity) (v) |
| zeal | intense passion and enthusiasm (n) |
| genocide | the mass murder of a particular group of people (n) |