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Ch.1/5 vocab
Boy on the wooden boy vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Imminent | ready to take place: happening soon. |
| Endanger | To create a dangerous situation |
| Postpone | to put off to a later time. |
| Inevitable | Incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| escapade | an adventurous action that I not approved |
| Region | a broad geography area distinguished by familiar features |
| predictable | able to be known seen, or declared in advance. |
| embark | To go on board a vehicle or transportation |
| observe | to watch carefully especially with attention to detail or behavior |
| sought | To go in search of or look for |
| Extravagant | Lacking in moderation balance and restraint |
| Bedraggled | Wet dirtying disheveled |
| Obliterate | To destroy completely to wipe out |
| Impulse | A sudden strong urge to act |
| Hazardous | Dangerous for risky |
| Pillage | To Rob or plunder by force |
| Propaganda | Ideas Factor allegations spread deliberately to damage an opposing cause |
| Scrounged | To get as needed by or as if by foraging or Scavenging |
| Retaliation | To return like for like |
| Ingenious | Marked by originality resourcefulness and cleverness |
| Abundance | An ample quantity |
| Despair | utter loss of Hope |
| Inadequate | Not enough or good enough |
| Deplorable | A deserving contempt |
| Depravity | A corrupt act or practice |
| The glass factory _ and the owner decided to expand the business by moving it to krakow | prospered |
| In early March 1941 we piled our belongs onto a wagon we'd _ for the move and said goodbye to our apartment and last tie to our once promising life in the big city | Scrounged |
| With their distorted lice infested figures and captions of hate they made it seem_ even proper to attack a Jew even if he differed from the poster portrayal | Permissible |
| Nazi propaganda portrayed the events of that night as a spontaneous demonstration against Jews as _ for the killing of a German Diplomat in Paris by a young Jew named Herschel grynspan. | Retaliation |
| Working together in those hopeless conditions somehow lessened the _ | Despair |
| Since some 15,000 people were jammed into an area meant to house 5,000 at most the sanitation system was deliberately _ | Deplorable |
| Determined - resolute synonym or antonym | synonym |
| Malnutrition -nourishment synonym or antonym | antonym |
| Admiration- respect | synonym |
| Routines- irregularities | antonym |
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szuskin