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"Night" PART 2 by Elie Wiesel Vocabulary

Tue Nov 28 11:35:50 EST 2023
By Mrs. Amaro (NY)
In this unflinching memoir, Elie Wiesel describes his experience as a young man imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust.

This list covers pages 47–110 in the 2006 Hill and Wang edition.

Here are links to our lists for the memoir: List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4
pittance
“I can arrange it. For a pittance: your shoes. I’ll give you another pair.”
conscientious
On the other hand, the dentist seemed more conscientious: he asked me to open my mouth wide.
cynical
Juliek, a Pole with eyeglasses and a cynical smile in a pale face.
imprudent
At the depot, nobody knew that I spoke German; it would have aroused suspicion. It was imprudent of me to say those few words to you, but I knew that you would not betray me.
untenable
This went on for two weeks. It was untenable. We had to give in.
grandeur
What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery?
lament
But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament.
reprieve
One more hour. Then we would know the verdict: death or reprieve.
emaciated
A poor emaciated Jew questioned him anxiously, his voice trembling...
incentive
But as soon as he felt the first chinks in his faith, he lost all incentive to fight and opened the door to death.
falter
An icy wind was blowing violently. But we marched without faltering.
apathy
From time to time, SS officers on motorcycles drove the length of the column to shake off the growing apathy...
disheveled
I must have been very dirty and disheveled, to judge by what the others looked like.
inert
His body remained inert.
ensue
In the wagon where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued.
maul
injure badly
rivet
I was riveted to my father’s agony.
unprecedented
He was late. Such lateness was unprecedented in the history of Buchenwald.
grimace
His eyes lit up, a smile, like a grimace, illuminated his ashen face.
contemplate
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.

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