Night Vocab
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- Nocturnal
- occuring at night
- Ascertain
- determine
- Conflagration
- destructive fire
- Conviction
- firm belief
- Surreptitiously
- done by stealth
- Excruciating
- extremely painful
- Assassins
- one who murders
- Revoked
- to withdraw
- Extract
- to draw back
- Faltering
- to be unsteady in action
- Exterminate
- to get rid of
- Aggressor
- an invader
- Liquidate
- to reduce to order
- Altruistic
- unselfishly concerned
- Interspersed
- to scatter
- Epidemic
- affecting many people
- Conscientious
- painstaking
- Sublime
- supreme or outstanding
- Wrath
- fiecre anger
- Riveted
- metal pin for passing through holes
- Crucible
- metal material for heating substances
- Essence
- real nature of something
- Haven
- any place of shelter
- Annahilate
- to reduce to non-existence
- Colic
- stomach ache
- Petrified
- to convert into stone
- Republic
- state in which there is no head of state
- Prevailed
- To be greater in strength
- Crematoria
- a crematory
- Kommandos
- units
- Expound
- to explain
- Red Army
- the Soviet Army
- Billeted
- lodging for a soldier
- Encumber
- to impede
- Incorporable
- able to be incorporated
- Transcended
- to pass beyond limits of
- Camaraderie
- good-fellowship
- Leprous
- resembling leprosy
- Oppressive
- burdensome
- Mysticism
- doctrine of spiritual intuition of truths
- Provisions
- preperation beforehand
- Abstraction
- the act of considering something as a general quality
- Ritual
- established procedure for a religious
- Veritable
- very much so
- Charred
- to burn slightly
- Fraught
- a load
- Haggard
- having an exhausted appearance
- Provoked
- to enrage
- Ensued
- result
- Zohar
- mystical work
- Destruction
- the condition of being destroyed
- Constraint
- restriction
- Betrothals
- a mutual promise
- Oblivion
- state of being completely forgotten
- Stifled
- to crush
- Aryan
- non-Jewish caucasian
- Quarantine
- a period of isolation
- Concurred
- to agree
- Bade
- to order
- Firmament
- the sky
- Emigration
- an act of leaving
- Grimace
- facial expression
- Entrusted
- to give trust to somebody
- Antechamber
- a room that serves as a waiting room
- Dispersed
- send off in various directions
- Pogrom
- an organized massacre of Jews
- Infinitely
- endless
- Farce
- foolish show
- Deportees
- a exported person
- Lament
- express sorrow
- Protrude
- to thrust forward
- Notorious
- unfavorably known
- Muster
- to come together
- Untenable
- not fit to be occupied
- Trucheons
- short stick carried by police
- Deportation
- the lawful expulsion of an undesired alien
- Dissipated
- characterized by excessive devotion
- Kabbalah
- a body of mystical teachings
- Ludicity
- easily understood
- Talmud
- the collection of Jewish law and tradition
- Convoy
- to escort
- Writhed
- squirm in pain
- Eluded
- to escape by speed
- Cauldron
- a large kettle
- Spectacle
- a public show
- Manacled
- shackle for a hand
- Tumult
- violent and noisy
- Edict
- a decree
- Contemplating
- view with continued attention
- Prostrate
- to lay flat
- Emaciated
- marked by abnormal thickness
- Illusion
- something that decieves by a false impression of reality
- Apathy
- absence of passion
- Vitality
- physical strength or mental vigor
- Kaddish
- a liturgical prayer
- Detention
- person's confinement
- Defiance
- bold resistance to authority
- Ghetto
- section wher Jews had to live
- Disengage
- to realease from connection
- Dregs
- any small quality
- Interrogating
- to examine by questions
- Deprivation
- the act of removal
- Automatons
- mechanical figure
- Muscleman
- bodygaurd
- Strategic
- nature of strategy
- Recesses
- temporary withdraw
- Credible
- believable
- Hasidic
- member of a sect
- Surname
- nick name
- Irrevocably
- not to be revoked
- Wielded
- to handle with skill
- Premonition
- a feeling of anticipation
- Familial
- characteristics of a family
- Lorries
- long, low wagon