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Boy Who Dared #1
Vocabulary pages 1-40
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mutti | German for mother |
| sonata | a musical composition for one or two instruments |
| Opa | German for grandfather |
| Oma | German for grandmother |
| opalescent | having colors like an opal, iridescent |
| warmonger | a person who advocates, endorses or tries to begin a war |
| clemency | an act showing mercy or leniency |
| gnaw | to bite or chew on |
| anticipation | to look forward to with great expectation |
| Guten Tag | German for good day |
| tenement | run down, overcrowded apartment house in especially poor areas |
| inflation | an economic state of ongoing price increases |
| chancellor | head of parliamentary governments |
| flat | an apartment |
| meager | having little, inadequate, deficient |
| kuchen | German for cake |
| bitte | German for please |
| billowing | to rise, swell or to puff up |
| verboten | German for forbidden |
| revelers | partiers, those boisterously indulging in merry making |
| swastika | official emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich |
| communism | A social system based on the holding of all property in common ownership. Everything belongs to the community or to the state as a whole. |
| amber | golden yellow |
| peculiar | strange, odd, unusual |
| culprits | a person who is guilty of an offense |
| Reichstag | The Parliament of Germany |
| Herr | German for Mr. |
| Frau | German for Mrs. |
| infuriate | to make angry or to enrage |
| Reich | realm; as in the realm of an emperor |
| boycott | to abstain from buying or using, a means of intimidation or coercion |
| pyre | a heap of burning wood |
| guillotine | a device used for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts |
| truncheon | a club |