English vocab

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What does incite mean?

Provoke

What is a queue?

A line (European expression)

What is deportation?

Banishment

What is Zionism?

Belief in a Jewish State

What is Talmud?

Body of Jewish tradition

What is an encumbrance?

Burden

What does lucidity mean?

Clarity

What are truncheons?

Clubs

What is colic?

Cramps

What is a reverie?

Daydream

What is a messiah?

Deliverer

What does pious mean?

Devout (very religious)

What is a fascist?

Dictator

What is a monocle?

Eyeglass

What is a crematory?

Furnace

What does emaciated mean?

Gaunt (unhealthily thin)

What is a lamentation?

Grief

What is sanctity?

Holiness

What is a hooligan?

Hoodlum (young criminal)

What does abominable mean?

Horrible

What is a synagogue?

House of worship

What does notorious mean?

Infamous

What is Cabbala?

Jewish mysticism

What is Hasidic?

Jewish sect

What is Gestapo?

Nazi security police

What does Aryan mean?

Non Jew (Hitler's version of a "Master Race")

What does pestilential mean?

Noxious (poisonous)

What are automatons?

Robots

What does appeasing mean?

Satisfying

What does imperceptibly mean?

Scarcely

What is a ghetto?

Section of a city where one group is isolated

What is a refuge?

Shelter (a refugee is someone seeking shelter)

What is a treatise?

Speech

What are anecdotes?

Stories

What is a gallows?

Structure for hanging

What is a Rabbi?

Teacher

What does harangued mean?

Threatened

What does base mean?

Vile

What does raucous mean?

Wild


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