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VocabularyfromNight
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fellow countrymen | Compatriots |
| Official statement;law | Edict |
| Set forth in detail | Expound |
| Sky or heavens | Firmament |
| Airtight; completely sealed | Hermetically |
| Filled with disease; contagious | Pestilential |
| Small boxes containing scripture; worn by some Jewish men for daily prayer | Phylacteries |
| Rob with open violence | Pillage |
| Anticipation of an event, usually negative, even without actual warning | Premonition |
| Police officer's stick | Truncheon |
| Like a beast or animal | Bestial |
| Something used to coax | Blandishments |
| Container for cooking at a high heat | Crucible |
| Marked by abnormal thinness caused by starvation or disease | Emaciated |
| Showing signs of leprosy, an infectious diseasse affecting body tissue | Leprous |
| To handcuff | Manacle |
| Waiting line | Queue |
| Dry, shrunken, wrinkled | Wizened |