Picture dictionary
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PICTURE DICTIONARY
By: Amanda Ewert
ANNIHILATE Destroy utterly; obliterate.
ANTI-SEMITIC hostility toward or discrimination
against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
APATHY lack of feeling or emotion
CONSCIENTIOUS Guided by or in accordance with the
dictates of conscience; principled
CONDEMNED to declare to be reprehensible, wrong, or
evil usually after weighing evidence and without reservation
CREMATORIUM crematory: a mortuary where corpses
are cremated
LIBERTY The state of being free within society
from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life.
ENCUMBRANCE a thing that impedes or is burdensome;
hindrance
ENLISTED To engage the support or cooperation
of.
EXPELLED Force (someone) to leave a place, esp. a
country.
FAMISHED Extremely hungry.
FORTNIGHT a period of 14 days : two weeks
GESTAPO The German internal security police as
organized under the Nazi regime, known for its terrorist methods directed against those suspected of treason or questionable loyalty.
GHETTO a section of a city in
which all Jews were required to live.
KABBALAH A body of mystical teachings of
rabbinical origin, often based on an esoteric interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures.
MIESTER one who is knowledgeable about
something specified
MOURNFUL Feeling or expressing sadness, regret, or
grief.
LIQUIDATED To put an end to; abolish.
PROVISIONS The action of providing or supplying
something for use.
QUARANTINE
• A state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.
RABBI a Jew trained and ordained for
professional religious leadership; specifically : the official leader of a Jewish congregation
RELENTLESSLY Steady and persistent; unremitting
STUPEFIED Make (someone) unable to think or feel
properly
TRUNCHEON a shattered spear or lance
ZIONISM an international movement originally for
the establishment of a Jewish national or religious community in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel