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Night Vocab Unit Rev
Night
| Night Vocab Word | Night Definition |
|---|---|
| cynical | scornful |
| liquidate | put an end to |
| pestilential | deadly, harmful |
| emaciated | very thin |
| quarantine | forced isolation |
| pious | devoutly religious |
| abyss | huge emptiness |
| plaintive | mournful |
| bestial | savage |
| premonition | a feeling that something is going to happen |
| billeted | lodged in non-military housing |
| Ghetto | restricted par of a city |
| anecdotes | short, humorous stories |
| truncheons | short,heavy clubs |
| compatriots | people from one's own country |
| constraints | restrictions |
| hermetically | airtight |
| stench | foul smell |
| incite | provoke |
| lucidity | clarity |
| notorious | infamous |
| unremittingly | without stopping |
| wizened | shriveled |
| alleged | supposed |
| Aryan | German "master race" |
| epidemic | outbreak of disease |
| accursed | cursed |
| decisive | sure |
| meager | small amount |
| mirage | optical illusion |
| void | emptiness |
| riveted | bound |
| summons | call |
| spasmodically | intermittently |
| innumerable | countless |