Holocaust Vocabulary Test

Question 1

Upstander

Answer 1

Someone who defends or stands up for a cause or belief

Question 2

Impact

Answer 2

The impact that something has on a situation, process, or
person is a sudden and powerful effect that it has on them.

Question 3

Adversary

Answer 3

Your adversary is someone you are competing with, or arguing or fighting against.

Question 4

Consolidate

Answer 4

If you consolidate something that you have, for example power or success, you strengthen it so that it becomes more effective or secure.

Question 5

Resettlement

Answer 5

Resettlement of people means when people are moving to a new place to live.

Question 6

Exterminate

Answer 6

To exterminate a group of people or animals means to kill all of them.

Question 7

Inferior

Answer 7

Something that is inferior is not as good as something else.

Question 8

Anti-Semitism

Answer 8

Anti-Semitism is hostility to and prejudice against Jewish people.

Question 9

Discrimination

Answer 9

Discrimination is the practice of treating one person or group of people less fairly or less well than other people or groups.

Question 10

Ghetto

Answer 10

A ghetto is a part of a city in which many poor people or many people of a particular race, religion, or nationality live separately from everyone else.

Question 11

Conquer

Answer 11

If one country or group of people conquers
another, they take complete control of their land.

Question 12

Denounce

Answer 12

If you denounce a person or an action, you
criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly
that they are wrong or evil.

Question 13

Atrocities

Answer 13

acts of extreme cruelty, especially against prisoners or
civilians in wartime.