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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 conflagration | a large fire that causes a great deal of damage |
| surreptitiously | done in a secretive or sneaky manner |
| anti-semitic | hating or discriminating against jewish people |
| waiflike | so, somebody, usually young, with a thin, fragile appearance who looks needy |
| annihilated | to destroy often the entire body |
| liquidated | to fully dispose of |
| penury | extreme poverty |
| anecdotes | a short account or an amusing story |
| phylacteries | small leather boxes containing Hebrew texts for jewish men |
| billeted | non military lodging for soldiers |
| treatise | a written work dealing formally with a subject |
| edicts | an official order by an authority |
| lethal | deadly |
| prominent | important or well known |
| rescinded | revoked canceled or repealed |
| preoccupied | absorbed in thought |
| facist | an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization, extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice. |
| sublime | of such excellence, grandeur or beauty to inspire great admiration |
| constraints | limitations or restrictions |
| hermetically | complete and airtight |
| wielding | hold and use like a tool or weapon |
| invectives | abusive insulting language |
| monocole | a single eyepeice |
| paternal | related to the father |
| exalted | held in high regard or status |
| sanctified | declared holy |
| vigor | active strength or force |
| redemption | being saved from sin or error |
| oblivion | the state of nothingness or obscurity |
| colossus | huge; beyond life size |
| ascertain | to make sure of |
| camaraderie | good fellowship or friendship |
| ration | a fixed amount of a commodity officially designated to each person usually during wartime |
| altruistic | selflessness thinking of others before yourself |
| quarantine | period of isolation when people or animals are contained to avoid possible contamination of others from illness, disease |
| imprudent | not showing or caring for the consequences of an action |
| affirm | to state or assert positively to maintain as true |
| gallows | a structure for the hanging of criminals |
| disheveled | looking untidy |
| indifferent | apathetic; without caring or concern |
| dysentery | infection of the intestines causing severe diarrhea w/ blood and mucus in the feces |
| unprecedented | never done or known before |
| liberated | to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage |
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