1. Talmudic - The collection of Jewish writings; Basis for Jewish law and tradition

2. Hasidic - Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism

3. Nazis - German political party joined by Adolf Hitler, emphasizing nationalism, racism, and war.

4. Jews - Followers of Judaism

5. Einsatzgruppen - 4 mobile death squads that killed about 1.5 million Jews.

6. Final Solution - German goal of killing all European Jews.

7. Hitler - German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945); Nazi leader and founder; Had over 6 million Jews assassinated during the

Holocaust

8. Auschwitz - Nazi extermination camp in Poland; The largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust; Close to a million Jews, Gypsies,

Communists, and others were killed there, 1940-1945

9. Birkenau - A segment of the Auschwitz concentration camp where most of the prisoners were housed; Reception/ welcome center

10. Yiddish - Jewish language; A dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words

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11. SS - Schutzstaffel; special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925

12. Buchenwald - nazi concentration camp in germany; camp for slave labor near weimar,

germany

13. Anti-Semites - Hostility or prejudice against Jews; Anti-Jewish

14. Holocaust - Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler; During World War II to kill people they considered undesirable: 6 million Jews;

millions of Poles, Gypsies, Communists, Socialists, and others.

Chapter 1

1. Encumbered – (adj.) held back; hindered; weighted down by something heavy

2. Mysticism – (n.) vague, obscure thinking or belief; doctrine that states it’s possible to achieve communion with God through contemplation and love

3. Anecdotes – (n.) short, entertaining, personal stories

4. Expound – (v.) explain or interpret; clarify

5. Farce – (n.) exaggerated comedy; something ridiculous

Chapter 2

1. Hermetically – (adv.) sealed in a completely airtight way

2. Monotonous – (adj.) tiresome (because of little or no variation)

3. Pestilence – (n.) fatally contagious or infectious disease

4. Stench – (n.) offensive smell or odor

5. Abominable – (adj.) nasty and disgusting; highly unpleasant; very bad

Chapter 3

1. Unremittingly – (adv.) persistently not stopping or relaxing

2. Lucidity – (n.) clarify; clearness; purity

3. Leprous – (adj.) having a progressive infectious disease

4. Congealing – (v.) thickening; solidifying

5. Blandishments – (n.) flattering statements

Chapter 4

1. Emigrate – (v.) to leave one country or region to settle in another

2. Immigrate – (v.) to come into a new country or region

3. Sanctity – (n.) saintliness or holiness

4. Reprieve – (n.) postponement of a penalty; temporary relief from

5. Imperceptibly – (adv.) slightly; gradually; subtly; difficult to understand; obscure

Chapter 5

1. Stricken – (adj.) struck down; having pain or suffering

2. Afflicted – (adj.) affected with something painful or distressing

3. Din – (n.) a loud, continuous noise

4. Balm – (n.) something healing or soothing to the mind or temper

5. Summarily – (adv.) hastily; arbitrarily; quickly

Chapter 6

1. Automatons – (n.) something that operates automatically in response to instructions

2. Entities – (n.) beings

3. Stifled – (adj. or v.) suffocated or smothered

4. Famished – (adj.) weakened from hunger

5. Encumbrance – (n.) hindrance; obstruction

Chapter 7

1. Indifference – (n,) lack of concern, interest, or feeling; apathy

2. Livid - (adj.) discolored as from a bruise

3. Avidly – (adv.) eagerly and enthusiastically

4. Grimace – (n.) a twisting or distortion of the face expressing pain, contempt, disgust, etc.

5. Tether – (v. or n.) a rope or chain fastened to something so as to keep it in certain bounds; to fasten or confine with a tether.

Chapter 8

1. Hillock – (n.) a small hill; mound

2. Plaintive – (adj.) sad; mournful

3. Beseeching – (v.) earnestly, eagerly asking someone for something

4. Riveted – (adj. or v.) secured or fastened firmly; also can mean fixed or held (eyes, attention, etc.)

5. Spasmodically – (adv.) violently; fitfully; intermittently

Chapter 9

1. Idleness – (n.) inactivity; laziness

2. Truncheon – (n.) a short; thick club; like a policeman’s stick

3. Liquidated – (v.) eliminated, disposed of, as by killing

4. Innumerable – (adj.) too numerous to be counted; very many

5. Deportees – (n.) person sentenced to be banished