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Boy Who Dared #1
Vocabulary pages 1-40
Term | Definition |
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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 |