Ch. 1-5 vocab. quiz. Flashcards
Define “edict”.
Official statement; law.
Define “ghetto”.
A city section inhabited by members of a single ethnic group.
Define “hermetically”.
Completely sealed; airtight.
Define “pestilential”.
Filled with disease; contagious.
Define “phylacteries”.
Small boxes containing scripture; worn by some Jewish men for daily prayer.
Define “pillage”.
To rob with open violence.
Define “premonition”.
Anticipation of an event, usually negative, even without actual warning (see the future).
Define “truncheon”.
A police officer’s stick.
Define “blandishments”.
Something used to coax.
Define “crematory”.
Furnace where bodies are burned to ashes.
Define “emaciated”.
Marked by abnormal thinness caused by starvation or disease.
Define “manacle”.
To handcuff.
Define “queue”.
Wait in line.
Define “wizened”.
Dry, shrunken, wrinkled.
Define “compatriots”.
Fellow countrymen.
