Night vocabulary 1

Question 1

compatriots

Answer 1

fellow countrymen

Question 2

edict

Answer 2

official statement; law

Question 3

expound

Answer 3

to set forth in detail

Question 4

firmament

Answer 4

the sky, or heavens

Question 5

hermetically

Answer 5

completely sealed; airtight

Question 6

pestilential

Answer 6

filled with disease; contagious

Question 7

phylacteries

Answer 7

small boxes containing scripture; worn by some Jewish men for daily prayer

Question 8

pillage

Answer 8

to rob with open violence

Question 9

premonition

Answer 9

n. anticipation of an event, usually negative, even without actual warning

Question 10

truncheon

Answer 10

a police officer’s stick

Question 11

blandishments

Answer 11

something used to coax

Question 12

crucible

Answer 12

container for cooking at high heat

Question 13

emaciated

Answer 13

marked by abnormal thinness caused by starvation or disease

Question 14

manacle

Answer 14

to handcuff

Question 14

leprous

Answer 14

showing signs of leprosy, which is an infectious disease that affects body tissue

Question 15

queue

Answer 15

waiting line

Question 16

wizened

Answer 16

dry, shrunken, wrinkled

Question 17

kapo

Answer 17

overseer in charge of a work detail, or some other branch of a concentration camp. Often,
kapos were selected from the prisoners—usually the criminals.

Question 18

ghetto

Answer 18

a small area of a city to which the Jewish people were restricted and from which they
were forbidden to leave.

Question 18

penury

Answer 18

a state of extreme poverty or destitution