Night vocabulary

Question 1

Hasidic

Answer 1

a member of a sect founded in Poland in the 18th century by Baal Shem-Tov and characterized by its emphasis on mysticism, prayer, ritual strictness, religious zeal, and joy.

Question 2

synagogue

Answer 2

a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.

Question 3

cabbala

Answer 3

a system of esoteric theosophy and theurgy developed by rabbis, reaching its peak about the 12th and 13th centuries, and influencing certain medieval and Renaissance Christian thinkers.

Question 4

Talmud

Answer 4

the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine a.d. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia a.d. c500.

Question 5

Gestapo

Answer 5

the German state secret police during the Nazi regime, organized in 1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and operations.

Question 6

rabbi

Answer 6

the chief religious official of a synagogue

Question 7

Zionism

Answer 7

a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel.

Question 8

Fascist

Answer 8

a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views.

Question 9

billeted

Answer 9

lodging for a soldier, student, etc., as in a private home or nonmilitary public building.

Question 10

ghetto

Answer 10

a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.

Question 11

treatise

Answer 11

a formal and systematic exposition in writing of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than an essay.

Question 12

deportation

Answer 12

the lawful expulsion of an undesired alien or other person from a state.

Question 13

hermetically

Answer 13

so as to be airtight:

Question 14

pestilential

Answer 14

a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.

Question 15

truncheons

Answer 15

the club carried by a police officer; billy.

Question 16

lorry

Answer 16

a motor truck, especially a large one.

Question 17

bestial

Answer 17

of, relating to, or having the form of a beast:

Question 18

lucidity

Answer 18

the quality of being easily understood, completely intelligible, or comprehensible:

Question 19

harangued

Answer 19

a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.

Question 20

colic

Answer 20

paroxysmal pain in the abdomen or bowels.

Question 21

reverie

Answer 21

a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing:

Question 22

bouts

Answer 22

a contest or trial of strength, as of boxing.

Question 23

Aryan

Answer 23

a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European.

Question 24

automatons

Answer 24

a mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot.

Question 25

encumbrance

Answer 25

something that encumbers; something burdensome, useless, or superfluous; burden; hindrance:

Question 26

contagion

Answer 26

the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact.

Question 27

hillock

Answer 27

a small hill.

Question 28

plaintive

Answer 28

expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful:

Question 29

beseeching

Answer 29

ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat.

Question 30

spasmodically

Answer 30

pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms.