Maus Vicabulary

Question 0

Sheik

Answer 0

(Slang) a man held to be masterful and irresistibly charming to women.

Question 1

Cataract

Answer 1

An abnormality of characterized by opacity of the lens.

Question 2

Communism

Answer 2

A system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single political party.

Question 3

Tenant

Answer 3

Someone who rents an apartment or a room from a landlord.

Question 4

Anti-Semitic

Answer 4

Being prejudiced against Jews.

Question 5

Sanitarium

Answer 5

An institution for rest and recuperation or a mental hospital.

Question 6

Pogrom

Answer 6

And organized massacre especially of Jews.

Question 7

Annexed

Answer 7

Attached to; incorporated into a larger body.

Question 8

Gestapo

Answer 8

And abbreviation of “Geheime Staatspolizei” the secret state police of the SS.

Question 9

Protectorate

Answer 9

Land controlled by German government.

Question 10

Reich

Answer 10

Land in next to Germany waiter meaning the Nazi regime.

Question 11

Wehrmacht

Answer 11

The German Armed Forces.

Question 12

Bar mitzvah

Answer 12

A ceremony to admit as an adult member of the Jewish community to a Jewish boy 13 years old.

Question 13

Schlepped

Answer 13

Yiddish for carried or moved in a trudging fashion.

Question 14

Liquidate

Answer 14

To put it an end to; toabolish

Question 15

Meshuga

Answer 15

Yiddish swine for “crazy; since less”

Question 16

Neurotic

Answer 16

Overanxious; panicky

Question 17

Kombinator

Answer 17

A person of low morals used to describe a Jew who collaborates with the Nazis.

Question 18

Caricature

Answer 18

And exaggerated representation

Question 19

Pragmatic

Answer 19

Practical concerned with the facts at hand