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encumbered . POS : ADJ. DEF : held back; hindered; weighed down by something heavy. S : “Nobody ever felt encumbered by his presence.”(Wiesel, 1). edict. POS : N DEF : official statement; law.

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  1. encumbered • POS: ADJ. • DEF: held back; hindered; weighed down by something heavy • S: “Nobody ever felt encumbered by his presence.”(Wiesel, 1)

  2. edict • POS: N • DEF: official statement; law • S: “My father ran to right and left, exhausted comforting friends, running to the Jewish Council to see if the edict had not been revoked in the meantime.” (Wiesel, 7)

  3. expound • POS: V • DEF: explain or interpret; clarify • S: There were twenty people gathered in our back yard. My father was telling them anecdotes and expounding his own views on the situation. (Wiesel, 7)

  4. firmament • POS: N • DEF: the sky, or heavens • S:“We were only waiting for the door to open – to see the opening of the firmament itself.” (Wiesel, 7)

  5. premonition • POS: N • DEF: anticipation of an event, usually negative, even without actual warning • S: “I’ve got a premonition of evil,” said my mother.” (Wiesel, 7)

  6. phylacteries • POS: N • DEF: small boxes containing scripture; worn by some Jewish men for daily prayer • S: “I was in the midst of my prayers when suddenly there were shouts in the street. I tore myself from my phylacteries and ran to the window.” (Wiesel, 9)

  7. truncheon • POS: N • DEF: a police officer’s stick • S: “The Hungarian police struck out with truncheons and rifle butts, to right and left, without reason........” (Wiesel, 9)

  8. compatriots • POS: N • DEF: fellow countrymen • S: “Behind their windows, behind their shutters, our compatriots looked out at us as we passed.” (Wiesel, 12)

  9. pillage • POS: V • DEF: to rob with open violence • S: “Yet our friends of yesterday were probably waiting behind their shutters for the moment when they could pillage our houses.” (Wiesel, 13)

  10. hermetically • POS: ADV. • DEF: sealed in a completely airtight way • S: “The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed.” (Wiesel, 15)

  11. pestilential • POS: ADJ • DEF: filled with disease; contagious • S: “The heat, the thirst, the pestilential stench, the suffocating lack of air...” (Wiesel, 17)

  12. bestial • POS: ADJ. • DEF: like a beast or animal • S: “So many crazed men, so many cries, so much bestial brutality.” (Wiesel, 23)

  13. leprous • POS: ADJ • DEF: showing signs of leprosy, which is an infectious disease that affects body tissue • S: “He looked us over as if we were a pack of leprous dogs hanging onto our lives.” (Wiesel, 25)

  14. reverie • POS: N • DEF: A state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thought; a daydream • S: “Dazed by the sunshine and by my reverie, I felt someone tugging at my sleeve.” (Wiesel, 26)

  15. wizened • POS: ADJ • DEF: dry, shrunken, wrinkled • S: “The man looking for us was a bespectacled little fellow with a wrinkle, wizened face.” (Wiesel, 28)

  16. blandishments • POS: N • DEF: something used to coax; flattering statements • S: “They were all laughing and joking and shouting blandishments at one another for a good part of the way.”(Wiesel, 30)

  17. cynical • POS: ADJ • DEF: distrusting the motives of others • S: “They were nearly all Jews: Juliek, a bespectacled Pole with a cynical smile on his pale face…..” (Wiesel, 32)

  18. queue • POS: N • DEF: waiting line • S: “There were about twenty prisoners waiting in a queue in front of the door.” (Wiesel, 34)

  19. reprieve • POS: N • DEF: a cancellation or postponement of a punishment • S: “He was probably glad to see that I had come back of my own accord, as I had promised. He gave me another reprieve.” (Wiesel, 34)

  20. manacle • POS: V • DEF: to handcuff • S: “His manacled hands did not tremble.” (Wiesel, 40)

  21. simultaneous • POS: ADV • DEF: performing an action at the same time • S: “Ten thousand caps were simultaneously removed.” (Wiesel, 40)

  22. livid • POS: ADJ • DEF: discolored from a bruise • S: “He was lividly pale, almost calm, biting his lips.” (Wiesel, 42)

  23. afflicted • POS: ADJ • DEF: affected with something painful or distressing • S: “What are You, my God,” I thought angrily, “compared to this afflicted crowd, proclaiming to You their faith , their anger, their revolt?” (Wiesel, 44)

  24. notorious • POS: ADJ • DEF: widely and unfavorably known • S: “There were three SS officers standing round the notorious Dr. Mengele, who had received us at Birkenau.” (Wiesel, 47)

  25. emaciated • POS: ADJ • DEF: marked by abnormal thinness caused by starvation or disease • S: “A poor emaciated, dried-up Jew questioned him avidly in a trembling voice.” (Wiesel, 48)

  26. crucible • POS: N • DEF: container for cooking at high heat • S: “The essential thing was to be as far away as possible from the block, from the crucible of death, from the center of hell.” (Wiesel, 49)

  27. derision • POS: N • DEF: contemptuous ridicule or mockery • S: “We were given winter clothes – slightly thicker striped shirts. The veterans found in this a new source of derision.” (Wiesel, 51)

  28. indeterminate • POS: ADJ • DEF: vague, not fixed in advance • S: “A trail of indeterminate light showed on the horizon.” (Wiesel, 58)

  29. bereave • POS: V • DEF: deprived of a loved one through a profound absence; due to a loved ones death • S: “He sat up and looked round him, bewildered, stupified – a bereaved stare.” (Wiesel,60)

  30. semblance • POS: N • DEF: outward appearance, but with a sense of falsity • S: “Our march had lost all semblance of discipline.”(Wiesel, 61)

  31. vigilance • POS: N • DEF: state of extreme watchfulness • S: “Was it not dangerous to allow your vigilance to fail, even for a moment, when at any minute death could pounce upon you?” (Wiesel, 63)

  32. embarkation • POS: N • DEF: beginning of a journey • S: “Our embarkation completed, the convoy set out.” (Wiesel, 65)

  33. apathy • POS: N • DEF: lack of feeling or emotion • S: “I woke up from my apathy just at the moment when two men came up to my father.” (Wiesel, 66)

  34. inert • POS: ADJ • DEF: lacking the ability or strength to move • S: “His body remained inert.” (Wiesel, 67)

  35. contagion • POS: N • DEF: an influence that spreads rapidly • Contaminant • S: “The contagion spread to other carriages.” (Wiesel, 69)

  36. beseech • POS: V • DEF: ask someone urgently and fervently to do something • S: “A plaintive, beseeching voice caught me in the spine…..” (Wiesel, 71)

  37. invalid • POS: N • DEF: a person made weak by illness or injury • S: “Struck down with dysentery, my father lay in his bunk, five other invalids with him.” (Wiesel, 72)

  38. rivet • POS: V • DEF: to hold attention tightly, as if physically attached • S: “I was riveted to my father’s deathbed..” (Wiesel, 73)

  39. upheaval • POS: N • DEF: a violent or sudden change or disruption to something • S: “As it was late and there was great upheaval – innumerable Jews had passed themselves off as non-Jews…...” (Wiesel,76)

  40. liberation • POS: N • DEF: freeing someone or something from another’s control • S: “Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald I became very ill with food poisoning.”(Wiesel, 77)

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