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Chapters 18-33

TermDefinition
Dignity "A feeling of worthiness"
Haggard "looking gaunt or wasted as a result of prolonged suffering."
Caustic "Capable of burning or destroying severely critical."
scuttle "To abandon."
Draft "senseless, stupid, foolish."
Trounce "To be defeated severally."
Degradation "wearing someone down into humiliation."
sadistic "deriving pleasure form extreme cruelty."
Tyrant "A person who is in a position of power and exercises that power oppressively."
Guerrilla "A group of soldiers harasses the enemy using covert methods like surprise and sabotage."
Cesspit "A pit holding sewage or waste."
Propaganda "information, ideas, or rumors that are deliberatly spread to harm a group of people or a nation."
raze "To tear down; level; demolish
Ofuna Higher ranking military peoples were held at this POW camp. They were tortured and this camp was nicknamed the "Torture Farm."
Dysentery "An infectious disease of the bowels which causes diarrhea."
Omori POW slave camp. This was a man made island in Tokyo Bay.
Kendo Stick This was a type of Japanese sword that was used in martial arts.
B-29 This plane had amazing technology and would be able to drop fire bombs and the atomic bomb on Japan.
naoetsu POW slave camp. This camp was considered a punishment camp.
Beriberi This was a disease caused by Vitamin B-1 deficiency.
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