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Night Vocabulary1
Night 1 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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bestial | like a beast or animal |
blandishments | something used to coax |
compatriots | fellow countrymen |
crucible | container for cooking at high heat |
edict | official statement; law |
emaciated | marked by abnormal thinness caused by starvation or disease |
expound | to set forth in detail |
firmament | the sky, or heavens |
hermetically | completely sealed; airtight |
leprous | showing signs of leprosy, which is an infectious disease that affects body tissue |
manacle | to handcuff |
pestilential | filled with disease; contagious |
phylacteries | small boxes containing scripture; worn by some Jewish men for daily prayer |
pillage | to rob with open violence |
premonition | anticipation of an event, usually negative, even without actual warning |
truncheon | a police officer’s stick |
queue | waiting line |
wizened | dry, shrunken, wrinkled |