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Night: Section 1
(pages 13-31)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| penury | extreme poverty; pennilessness |
| fraught | full of something unpleasant; likely to result in something unpleasant |
| insinuate | to imply or suggest |
| billet | to lodge military personnel in a private home |
| annihilate | to destroy completely or reduce to nothing |
| liquidate | convert into cash |
| surreptitiously | done secretly to keep something from being discovered and disapproved |
| conflagration | a fire that burns out of control |
| edict | official proclamation or command |
| prominent | standing out; most noticeable |