Hi, you guys! Again, if there are any vocabulary words that I didn't cover, please comment on my post with those vocabulary words and I'll search them up for you. (:
1. agitated (page 66) verb. to move or force into violent, irregular action
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the last day of that cursed year, the entire camp was agitated and everyone of us felt the tension.
2. ailing (page 66) adjective. sickly; unwell
Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds, their ailing bodies?
3. benediction (page 67) noun. an utterance of good wishes
Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm.
4. furnaces (page 67) noun. a structure or apparatus in which heat may be generated, as for heating houses, smelting ores, or producing steam
How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces?
5. mystic (page 67) adjective. involving or characterized by esoteric, otherworldly, or symbolic practices or content, as certain religious ceremonies and art; spiritually significant; ethereal.
And I, the former mystic, was thinking: yes, man is stronger, greater than God.
6. lament (page 68) verb. to feel or express sorrow or regret for
I was no longer able to lament.
7. Atonement (page 69) noun. satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends.
The Day of Atonement.
8. Veritable (page 70) adjective. being truly or very much so
Back then, Buna was a veritable.
9. reprieve (page 70) verb. to delay the impending punishment or sentence of (a condemned person).
Then we would know the verdict: death or reprieve.
10. emaciated (page 73) verb. to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.
A poor emaciated Jew questioned him anxiously, his voice trembling.
11. crucible (page 74) noun. a container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures.
All that mattered was to be far from the block, far from the crucible of death, from the center of hell.
12. veiled (page 75) adjective. not openly or directly expressed; masked; disguised; hidden; obscure
He looked at me with his tired eyes, veiled by despair.
13. plodded (page 75) verb. to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge
All day, I plodded around like a sleep walker.
14. dysentery (page 78) noun. an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic.
Next to me lay a Hungarian Jew suffering from dysentery.
15. knell (page 84) noun. the sound made by a bell rung slowly, esp. for a death or a funeral.
The death knell.
16. exodus (page 84) noun. a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people
We had to await the exodus of the fifty-six blocks that preceded us.
-Michelle! (:
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I think you covered them all. Thanks!
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