Night Vocab Flashcards

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Waiflike

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No home or friends

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Mysticism

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God is best known through direct personal experience

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3
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Anti-Semitic

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Hating Jews

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4
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Fascists

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Type of dystopian government

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5
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Phylacteries

A

Small box containing Hebrew texts

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6
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Surreptitiously

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Kept secretly

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7
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Surreal

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Bizarre, strange

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8
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Big fire

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Conflagration

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9
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Irrevocably

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Unchangeable

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10
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Hermetically

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Airtight

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11
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Tumult

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Loud and confused noise caused by a large group of people

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12
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Imperative

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Of vital importance

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13
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Petrified

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Terrified

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14
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Monocle

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A single eyeglass

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15
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Crematoria

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Where a dead body is cremated

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Lucidity

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Oblivion

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The state of being unaware of what is happening

18
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Harangued

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To lecture at length aggressively

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Convalescent

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Recovering from an illness or operation

20
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Colic

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Severe abdominal pain

21
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Wizened

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Shriveled or wrinkled with age

22
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Manacled

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Chained or handcuffed

23
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Dysentery

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Infection of the intestines resulting in diarrhea

24
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Automatons

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Moving mechanical device made in imitation of a human being

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Emancipated
Thin or weak because of lack of food
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Apathy
Pack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern
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Inert
Lacking the ability or strength to move
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Plaintive
Sounding sad and mournful
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Ashen
Of the pale gray color of ash
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Penury
Extreme poverty