night vocab

Question 1

humane

Answer 1

having or showing compassion benevolence

Question 2

anti sematic

Answer 2

feeling or showing hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a cultural, racial ethnic group

Question 3

allied forces

Answer 3

the millitaty forces of an alliance (during world war 2 the allied forces were Russia, united kingdom and the usa) fighting against Germany Italy and japan

Question 4

beadle

Answer 4

a member of a religious congregation who helps with services

Question 5

camaderie

Answer 5

mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together

Question 6

crematory furnice

Answer 6

a place where a deceased persons body is cremated

Question 6

facist

Answer 6

someone who suppolrts a rigid one part dictatorship by suppression of the opposition

Question 7

reassurance

Answer 7

removing someones doubts or fears

Question 7

pillage

Answer 7

to rob with open violance

Question 8

firmament

Answer 8

the sky or heavens

Question 9

concentration camp

Answer 9

a camp or prison where persons such as prisioners of war political prisioners or refugees are detained or confined

Question 10

lorries

Answer 10

flabbed trucks with a canvas / box trucks

Question 11

petrified

Answer 11

so frightened that one is unable to move - terrified

Question 12

kapo

Answer 12

german term for trustees or guards chosen from the priosners themselves

Question 13

invalids

Answer 13

a person who is made weak or disabled by illness or injury

Question 14

idleness

Answer 14

not working, not active

Question 15

hallucinating

Answer 15

to see or sense something or someone that is really not there

Question 16

kaddish

Answer 16

a prayer jews recite in memory of a loved one who has died

Question 17

harangued

Answer 17

lecture( somone) at length in an aggressive and critical manner

Question 18

oblivion

Answer 18

the state of being unconsious or un aware the state of not knowing what is going on around

Question 19

pillage

Answer 19

to rob with open violence

Question 20

gestapo

Answer 20

a german secret police organization employing underhanded and terrorist methods against persons suspected of dis loyalty

Question 21

phylacatries

Answer 21

small leather cases containing scripture worn by some jewish men for daily prayer

Question 22

expound

Answer 22

to set forth in detail or elaborate

Question 23

gestapo

Answer 23

a germ

Question 24

edict

Answer 24

official statement and law

Question 25

tumult

Answer 25

a loud confused noise especially one caused by a large mass of people. confusion or disorder

Question 26

rosh hashanah

Answer 26

a holiday that begins the jewish new year

Question 27

constraint

Answer 27

a reppresion of one owns feelings, behavior or actions- a state of being restricted

Question 28

premonition

Answer 28

anticipation of an event usually negative even without actual warning

Question 29

yom kippur

Answer 29

a jewish holiday observed with fasting and prayer on the 10th game of the trishirites described in leviticus 16

Question 30

desensitized

Answer 30

to react less or to be less affected by something

Question 31

surname

Answer 31

last name

Question 32

rabbi

Answer 32

a person who is trained to make decisions on what is lawful in Judaism to preform Jewish ceremonies or to lead a Jewish congregation

Question 33

synagogue

Answer 33

a place where jews meet for religious worship or instruction

Question 34

talmud

Answer 34

the most signifigant collection of jewish oral tradition interpreting the torrah

Question 35

deportees

Answer 35

people who have been sent away by force

Question 36

pestilential

Answer 36

filled with disease