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Night Part 1 Vocab Flashcards

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1
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Surname

A

Family name; last name

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Penury

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Poverty; destitution

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Rendering

A

Making; causing to be

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Waiflike

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Like a homeless child

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Expelled

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Forced to leave

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Deportees

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Persons being expelled from a country

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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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Annihilate

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To destroy completely

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Dispersed

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Spread out over a wide area

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Emigration

A

Leaving one country and settling in another

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12
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Liquidate

A

Clear out

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13
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Billeted

A

Housed in civilian (non-military) lodging

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14
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Sublime

A

Supreme; an ultimate example

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15
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Henceforth

A

From this point on; from now on

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Lethal

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Deadly

17
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Edicts

A

Official orders

18
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Delusion

A

False impression

19
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Treatise

A

A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject

20
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Antechamber

A

Small room leading to a main room

21
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Rescinded

A

Revoked; canceled

22
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Surreptitiously

A

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

23
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Convoy

A

Group traveling together, usually accompanied by armed guards

24
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Surreal

A

Bizarre; strangely unrealistic or fanciful

25
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Hysteria

A

Uncontrollable emotion or excitement

26
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Oppressors

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Those who keep someone in subservience and hardship by unjust exercise of authority

27
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Chaos

A

Complete disorder and confusion

28
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Conflagration

A

Huge raging fire

29
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Extinguished

A

Caused to cease to burn; put out

30
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Evacuated

A

Removed for safety reasons

31
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Farce

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Absurdity; mockery; sham

32
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Expulsion

A

Process of forcing out

33
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Familial

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Relating to the family

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