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Mrs. Shaw's Night Vo
Night Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Surname | family name |
Encumbered | hindered; restricted |
Insignificant | trivial, not important |
Profoundly | absolutely; in an unqualified way |
Deportees | people who are expelled from a country |
Emigration | leaving one area to settle in another |
Treatise | written discussion of a topic |
Anecdotes | short accounts of humorous incidents |
Melancholy | sadness; depression |
Constraint | restrictions |
Provisions | necessary supplies, such as food |
Hermetically | sealed against the entry or escape of air |
Pestilential | likely to cause an epidemic disease |
Notorious | known wide and unfavorably; infamous |
Devoid | completely lacking or empty |
Monocle | an eyeglass for one eye |
Lucidity | clear understanding |
Convalescent | returning to health after an illness |
Blandishments | flattering comments |
Convoy | group of vehicles traveling together |
Frenzy | violent mental agitation or wild excitement |
Torment | to cause physical pain |
Thrash | best; hit |
Latter | second of two |
Raucous | boisterous and disorderly |
Sabotage | treacherous action to defeat a cause |
Lamentation | grief; mourning |
Void | emptiness |
Emaciated | made thin due to starvation |
Elapsed | passed |
Feeble | lacking strength; weak |
Evacuation | withdrawing troops or civilians |
Relentlessly | steadily; persistently |
Deprive | to take something away from |
Bereaved | left alone by death |
Apathy | lack of emotion or feeling |
Livid | ashen; pallid |
Dregs | least desirable position |
Vitality | energy |
Tether | the limit of one’s resources or endurance |
Contagion | harmful influence |
Plaintive | expressing sorrow |
Recesses | remote secret places |