Night Vocabulary

Question 1

abstraction

Answer 1

a concept, a thought, an idea, not something tangible.

Question 2

billet[ed]

Answer 2

lodge (soldiers) in a particular place, especially a civilian’s house or other nonmilitary facility.

Question 3

kabbalist

Answer 3

someone who is studying the Kabblah which is an ancient Jewish mystical text.

Question 4

dishearten

Answer 4

to deprive of courage and hope; discourage.

Question 5

encumber[ed]

Answer 5

restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.

Question 6

expound

Answer 6

to explain by setting forth in careful and often elaborate detail.

Question 7

ghetto

Answer 7

an enclosed area that is occupied by a particularly group of people usually of low income and have the same cultural identity, a minority group.

Question 8

illusion

Answer 8

a false idea or belief.

Question 9

indulgently

Answer 9

willing to allow excessive leniency; doing something in an overly generous or permissive way.

Question 10

lorrie

Answer 10

a flatbed train car meant for cargo.

Question 11

mysticism

Answer 11

anything mystical, direct connection with God, the idea there is something they can do that is going to bring them into direct contact with god.

Question 12

perilous

Answer 12

hazardous; dangerous.

Question 13

revelation

Answer 13

something that is revealed never before.

Question 14

surname

Answer 14

your last name, a hereditary name common to all members of a family, as distinct from a given name.

Question 15

truncheon

Answer 15

a short, thick stick carried as a weapon by a police officer; baton.

Question 16

monochromatic

Answer 16

containing or using only one color.

Question 17

compulsory

Answer 17

something that is mandatory, required by law or a rule; obligatory.

Question 18

crucible

Answer 18

a severe test or trial.

Question 19

lamentation

Answer 19

the passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping.

Question 20

incite

Answer 20

encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behavior).

Question 21

derisive

Answer 21

expressing contempt or ridicule.

Question 22

leprous

Answer 22

relating to or resembling leprosy; something that is eating way at you.

Question 23

pestilential

Answer 23

relating to or tending to cause infectious diseases; germs, bateria, decay, full of sickness.

Question 24

oppressive

Answer 24

burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical.

Question 25

convey

Answer 25

communicate a message or transport or carry to a place.

Question 26

Propaganda

Answer 26

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

Question 27

Stereotype

Answer 27

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Question 28

Aryan race

Answer 28

in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, some scholars and others transformed the Aryans into a mythical “race” that they claimed was superior to other races. In Germany, the Nazis promoted this false notion that glorified the German people as members of the “Aryan race.” At the same time, they denigrated Jews, Black people, and Roma View This Term in the Glossary (Gypsies) as “non-Aryans.”

Question 29

Explicit

Answer 29

fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated.

Question 30

Implicit

Answer 30

referring to something that is understood, but not described clearly or directly.