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Night vocabwords
elie wiesel
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| billeted | given room and board |
| blandishments | flattering statements |
| compulsory | required mandatory |
| congeal | to solidify as if freezing to jell |
| crucible | a vessel that heats substances to high temperatures |
| emaciated | extremely thin, scrawny, gaunt, starved |
| emigration | to leave ones country |
| encumber | to burden, weigh down |
| entity | something that has separate and distinct existence and reality |
| haggard | appearing worn or exhausted |
| harangued | to deliver a speech with strong feeling |
| hermetically | so as to be airtight, not allowing air to flow out |
| lorries | trucks |
| lucidity | clear and comprehensible |
| melancholy | mournful depressed soberly and gloomily thoughtless |
| nocturnal | relating to or occurring in the night |
| oblivion | the condition or quality of being completely forgotten |
| pious | deeply religious |
| reverie | a daydream or the state of day dreaming |
| summarily | immediately w/o notice, speedily |
| truncheons | billy club baton carried by authority figures |
| unremitting | without stopping |
| hasidic | jewish sect of mystics who believe in a joyful worship of god |
| synagogue | a jewish place of worship |
| cabbala | an occult jewish philosophy based on mystical interpretation of the scriptures |
| talmud | book of detailed expositions and mystical interpretation of the scriptures |
| gestapo | secret nazi police force |
| rabbi | a scholar and teacher of jewish law a jewish spiritual leader |
| zionism | a movement for reestablishment of a jewish state now a movement supporting the jewish state of israel |
| emigration | the act of leaving ones country |
| billet | to lodge to house |
| passover | a jewish holiday celebratin the deliverence of the hebrews from slavery in egypt |
| treatise | a formal article or book on a particular subject |
| expound | to state in detail, to explain |
| edict | an official public proclamation or order issued by authority |
| phylacteries | small cases holding copies of passages from scripture worn on the forehead and left arm during weekday morning prayers |
| compatriot | a fellow countryman |
| guerrilla | a oldier who makes suprise attacks and raids behind enemy lines |
| expulsion | a driving out by force |
| pillage | to loot to rob of property |
| constraint | restriction especially of the feelings and behavior |
| SS | abbreviation of schutzstaffel, nazi special police force |
| incite | the urge to act/provoke |
| unremittingly | constantly without interruption |
| bestial | like a beast |
| kapos | nazi concentration camp prisoners who were given special privileges in turn for supervising other prisoners |
| compulsory | something that must be done |
| wizened | shriveled dried up |
| blandishment | a flattering remark meant to be persuasive |
| sanctity | holiness |
| numerology | a system built around numbers of foretelling the future |
| reprieve | a postponement of punishment, relief |
| aryan | a term by the nazis to mean a caucasian person of non jewish lineage |
| raucous | hoarse rough sounding |
| Rosh hashanah | the jewish new year the spiritual new year including prayer and rituals |
| benediction | a formal blessing in a religious service |
| implore | to beg beseech |
| lamentation | an expression of grief or sadness |
| yom kippur | the holiest day in the jewish calender, day of atonement, fasting and prayer for forgiveness |
| interminable | endless |
| emaciated | abnormally thin due to starvation |
| meager | of small quantity |
| crucible | a severe test or trial |
| sage | a very wise person as a result of age and experience |
| calvary | where jesus was crucified |
| derision | scorn, ridicule |
| dysentary | intestinal inflammation causing abnormal pain and diarrhea |
| red army | regular army of soviet union |
| annihilate | to completely destroy |
| summarily | promptly |
| mountebank | a fake a charlatan a trickster |
| indeterminate | vague subtle |
| encumbrance | a burden |
| apathy | lack of interest |
| inert | motionless |
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