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Rifka Wk 1
Rifka vocabulary, week 1
Question | Answer |
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characterization | n. what the characters do and say; what others think of the character |
flashback | n. a scene thinking back to an earlier time |
immigrant | n. a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence |
regiment | n. a unit of ground forces |
rucksack | n. a type of knapsack |
precaution | n. a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results |
bayonets | n. a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in close combat |
kerchief | n. a woman's square scarf worn as a covering for the head or sometimes the shoulders |
battalion | n. a ground force unit composed of a headquaters and two or more companies or similar units |
shalom | interj. Hebrew meaning 'peace,' used for a word of greeting or farewell |
fumigation | n. the act of fumigating, v. fumigate to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting |
tormented | v. to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain |
cossacks | n. a person belonging to any of certain groups of Slavs living chiefly in the southern part of Russia in Europe and forming an elite corps of horsemen |
Typhus | n. an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body |