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English vocab
Chapter 6 through 10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Miscalculate | To make an error in judgment or calculation |
| outmaneuver | To defeat by more skill for maneuvering |
| Diminished | Made or become less reduced in size importance or intensity |
| Relocate | To move to a new place |
| Loiter | To stand or wait around idly without purpose. |
| Indefinitely | For an unlimited or unspecified. Of time not precise |
| Miraculous | Supernatural of the nature of a miracle marvelous |
| Emaciated | Very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| Infirmary | A place where sick or injured people receive care |
| Bureaucrat | A member of the bureaucracy and official who follows rules rigidly. |
| Isolation | The condition of being alone are separated from others |
| Repetitive | The actor instance of repeating or being repeated done over and over |
| Conspicuous | Obvious to the eye your mind standing out noticeable |
| Exterminate | To get rid of completely usually by killing off to destroy utterly |
| Ingenuity | Skiller cleverness and devising or inventing resourcefulness |
| periphery | The outer boundary or edge of an area |
| Imminent | Ready to take place about to happen impending |
| Humiliation | The state of being humbled or degraded shame or embarrassment |
| Trudged | Walked slowly or with heavy steps especially due to exhaustion |
| Departure | The act of leaving or going away |
| Ecstatic | Marked by overwhelming emotion extremely happy or joyful |
| Hostility | Deep usually manual ill will unfairness or opposition |
| Abject | Cast down in spirit showing hopelessness or resignation Wretched |
| Plea | An earnest appeal or request |
| Vying | To strive for superiority competing |
| My Hope of finding my family plummeted when I learned that I was to stay there _ | Indefinitely |
| Was he simply being a _ who didn't like the fact that a name had been crossed out without his official permission | Bureaucrat |
| Then the_ happened. Some of the man who had begun to watch out for me told me where the Schindler Jews had been assigned. | Miraculous |
| Earlier that evening my friend yo so and I carried an elderly woman on a stretcher to the ghetto_ | Infirmary |
| As he spoke I saw the pain and helplessness and my father's eyes as he realized how weak and _ I had become. | Emaciated |
| I had had enough narrow escapes by then to know that it was best not to be _ not stand out not to make myself a possible Target | Conspicuous |
| It took unbelievable courage and _ not to mention enormous bribes for Schindler to get the necessary approvals to transport all of the equipment | Ingenuity |
| The terrible _ and loneliness that had blag me receded | Isolation |
| She knew my mother would be_ and he knew that only he could confront her. | Distraught |
| There were constant reports of reoccurring_ toward Jews | Hostility |
| Ecstatic | Synonym happy may vary antonym sad May very |
| Hostility | Synonym unfriendly may very antonym kindness |
| Emaciated | Synonym unhealthy may vary antonym fat May very |
| Miraculous | Synonym amazing may vary antonym horrible may vary |
| Distraught | Alligated with doubt, mental conflict or pain deeply upset |
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szuskin