Word Watcher Chapter 1

Hey you guys! This is the first post from the word watcher. YAY! (: These are some of the words I don't understand while I was reading but, if you don't understand some words that I didn't mention, please post a comment below and I'll define it for you! Remember to include the page number so, I can look for it. (:

1. penury (page 3): noun. extreme poverty; destitution.
"He was poor and lived in utter penury."

2. rendering (page 3): noun. an act or instance of interpretation, rendition, or depiction, as of a dramatic part or a musical composition
"He had mastered the art of rendering himself in significant invisible."

3. synagogue (page 3): noun. a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.
"By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple."

4. beadle (page 3): noun. a parish officer having various subordinate duties, as keeping order during services, waiting on the rector, etc.
"Moishe the Beadle was the exception."

5. kabbalah (page 4): noun. an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret (still don't really get this, can someone help me out?)
"One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of kabbalah."

6. zohar (page 5): noun. a medieval mystical work, consisting chiefly of interpretations of and commentaries on the Pentateuch: the definitive work of Jewish cabala.
"One evening, I told him how unhappy I was nt to be able to find in Sighet a master to teach me the Zohar, the Kabbalistic works, the secrets of the Jewish mysticism."

7. err (page 5): verb. to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.
"He must not err and wish to enter the orchard through a gate other than his own."

8. insinuated (page 7): verb. to suggest or hint slyly
"Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things."

9. annihilate (page 8): verb. to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly
"Annihilate an entire people?"

10. emblem (page 9): noun. an object or its representation, symbolizing a quality, state, class of persons, etc.; symbol
"German soldiers--with their steel helmets and their death's-head emblem."

11. billet (page 9): noun. lodging for a soldier, student, etc., as in a private home or nonmilitary public building.
"The officers were billeted in private homes, even in Jewish homes."

12. jubilant (page 10): adjective. showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant
"The optimists were jubilant: "Well? What did we tell you? You wouldn't believe us. There they are, your Germans. What do you say now? Where is their famous cruelty?"

13. surreptitiously (page 16): adjective. obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine
"Some of the Jewish police surreptitiously went to fill a few jugs."

14. conflagration (page 21): noun. a destructive fire, usually an extensive one.
"Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes."

-Michelle Xia(: