Night Part 1 Vocab Flashcards

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Surname

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Family name; last name

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Penury

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Poverty; destitution

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3
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Rendering

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Making; causing to be

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4
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Waiflike

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Like a homeless child

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5
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Expelled

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Forced to leave

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6
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Deportees

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Persons being expelled from a country

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7
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Insinuated

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Suggested by hints; Implied

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8
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Exterminate

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Wipe out, as an entire population

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9
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Annihilate

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To destroy completely

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10
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Dispersed

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Spread out over a wide area

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11
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Emigration

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Leaving one country and settling in another

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12
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Liquidate

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Clear out

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13
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Billeted

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Housed in civilian (non-military) lodging

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14
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Sublime

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Supreme; an ultimate example

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15
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Henceforth

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From this point on; from now on

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16
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Lethal

17
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Edicts

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Official orders

18
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Delusion

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False impression

19
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Treatise

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A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject

20
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Antechamber

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Small room leading to a main room

21
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Rescinded

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Revoked; canceled

22
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Surreptitiously

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In a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention; secretively.

23
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Convoy

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Group traveling together, usually accompanied by armed guards

24
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Surreal

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Bizarre; strangely unrealistic or fanciful

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Hysteria
Uncontrollable emotion or excitement
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Oppressors
Those who keep someone in subservience and hardship by unjust exercise of authority
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Chaos
Complete disorder and confusion
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Conflagration
Huge raging fire
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Extinguished
Caused to cease to burn; put out
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Evacuated
Removed for safety reasons
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Farce
Absurdity; mockery; sham
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Expulsion
Process of forcing out
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Familial
Relating to the family