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Mrs. Shaw's Night Vo
Night Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |