| alien | foreigner |
| ransacking | to search thoroughly |
| saboteur | someone who aids an enemy or destroys |
| confiscators | somone who seizes by authority |
| sinister | evil; wicked |
| futile | useless |
| dignity | self respect; worthiness |
| fruitless | useless, not productive |
| internment | imprisonment |
| patriarch | father or male leader |
| hostility | unfriendliness |
| subordinate | inferior |
| wasteland | useless piece of land that cannot be used for farming |
| filial | of a family |
| aggravated | to intensify |
| accelerated | to speed up |
| intangible | can't be touched |
| tolerance | putting up with |
| alleviate | to lessen |
| promenade | place to walk |
| afflictions | condition of great distress or suffering |
| samurai | Japanese warriors |
| emigrate | to go out of the country |
| perilously | dangerously |
| Inu | dog; informer |
| pacify | to make peace, to give in |
| Issei | Japanese-Japanese |
| oblivion | in a state of forgetfulness |
| Nisei | Japanese-Americans |
| repatriation | the sending of a person back to the country of citizenship |
| hostility | unfriendliness in an aggressive manner |
| congestion | crowding |
| habitable | able to live in comfortably |
| sustenance | means of supporting life |
| subdued | calm |
| resigned | giving up/giving in |
| subsided | diminished, lessened |
| submerged | to go under |
| invulnerable | cannot be attacked |
| posthumous | after death |
| habeus corpus | to be imprisoned without charge |
| rescinded | canceled |
| inaccessible | not able to reach or understand |
| lethargy | laziness |
| assented | agreed |
| capitulate | to surrender unconditionally |
| assertive | confidentially self assured |
| obstinance | stuborness |
| authentic | genuine; real |
| inaudible | can't be heard |
| obelisk | tall, four sided shaft of stone |
| pilgrimage | spiritual journey |