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Night Chapter 1-9
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Proufoundly | Absolutley in an unquailified way |
Pestilential | Likely to cause an epidemic disease |
Insignificant | Trivial; Unimportant |
Devoid | Completely lacking or emty |
Blandishments | Coaxing by flattery |
Notorious | Known widely and unfavorably; infamous |
Constraint | Restrictions |
Convalescent | Returning to health after an illness |
Monocle | An eyeglass for one eye |
Emigration | Leaving one area to settle in another |
Surname | Family name |
Provisions | Necessary supplies such as food |
Hermetically | Sealed against the entry or escape of air |
Anecdotes | Short humorous stories |
Encumbered | Hindered; Restricted |
Lucidity | Clear understanding |
Deportees | People who were expelled from a country |
Melancholy | Sadness; Depression |
Treatise | Written discussion of a topic |
Convoy | group of vehicles travelling together |
Frenzy | violent mental agitation or wild excitement |
Torment | To cause physical pain or mental anguish |
Thrash | Beat; Hit |
Latter | second of two |
Raucous | boisterous an 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 |
Apathy | Lack of feeling or emotion |
Plaintive | express sorrow |
Vitality | vigor; energy |
Contagion | Harmful influence |
Livid | Ashen; Pallid |
Deprive | To take something away from |
Recesses | Remote, secret places |
Tether | Limit of one's resources or endurace |
Bereaved | Left alone by death |
Dregs | The least desireable portion |