Vocabulary English 2 Unbroken 21-39 Flashcards
1
Q
anti-aircraft fire
A
firing weapons at an enemy
2
Q
flak
A
antiaircraft fire
3
Q
posthumous
A
occurring after ones death
4
Q
shrapnel
A
fragments of an object thrown by explosion
5
Q
infirmary
A
hospital
6
Q
ordnance
A
mounted guns
7
Q
atoll
A
islands formed of coral
8
Q
decapitate
A
cut off the head of a person
9
Q
turret
A
a low, flat armored tower
10
Q
cannibaism
A
the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
11
Q
catatonic
A
a persons activity is generally reduced to nothing
12
Q
transcendence
A
a state of being or resistance
13
Q
scurvy
A
a disease resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C
14
Q
parasites
A
an organism that lives on or in a host
15
Q
beriberi
A
a disease in which the body does not have enough thiamine
