Night vocab.
Terms
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- crucible
- a servere test
- parch
- extremely dry
- cauldron
- large kettle or pot
- Yom Kippur
- Jewish holiday with fasting and prayer for atonement
- crematory
- oven
- fascism
- dictatorial rule (totalitarian regime) used by Hitler
- Cabbala
- mystical interpretation of Scripture
- nationalism
- extreme patriotism for one's own country
- Zionism
- movement of philosophy to create a state of Israel in the Palestine region
- reprieve
- excuse
- vigilance
- alert; watchful
- unnumerable
- too many to count
- Rosh Hashanah
- Jewish new year
- lucidity
- translucent; bright; clear
- atonement
- sorrow for offense
- inert
- slow; unmoving
- fortnight
- two weeks
- emigrate
- to move out of a country
- imperceptible
- very slight; unnoticeable
- relentless
- mercilessly harsh; unforgiving
- quarantine
- isolated from others
- deportation
- to be removed from a country (government order to leave)
- lorry
- truck
- congeal
- solidify
- ghetto
- Jews were forced by the Nazis to live in these small crowded communites
- implore
- ask earnestly, beg
- interminable
- endless
- Talmud
- books containing Jewish civil and religious laws
- immigrate
- to move into a country
- sanctity
- holiness; sacred
- lavoritory
- restroom
- oppressive
- unreasonably burdensome or severe
- selection
- Nazi policy of eliminating the sick and weak individuals
- Zohar
- Cabbalistic book used in mystical interpretation of Scripture
- dysentery
- intestinal disease; diarrhea
- tunic
- belted knee length garment
- evoke
- call forth; summon
- indifference
- having no interest or concern
- remorse
- sense of guilt
- Gestapo
- Nazi German secret police
- vitality
- lively and animated
- genocide
- extermination of race of people
- reverie
- daydream
- Kapos
- guard
- synagogue
- Jewish church or place of worship
- infirmary
- a place to care for sick people
- annihilate
- to eliminate
- truncheon
- club or stick used by police
- radiant
- bright; glowing
- mockery
- insulting action; ridicule
- encumbrance
- burden
- manacled
- shackled; handcuffed
- countenance
- calm, facial expression indicating approval
- queue
- in a line
- semblance
- outward appearance; image
- Nazi
- member of a party in Germany headed by Hitler, also known as National Socialist Party
- reminisce
- recall past experiences
- pestilential
- deadly or dangerous
- notorious
- widely and unfavorably known; infamous
- billeted
- housing of soldiers in people's homes