Night Chapters 1-2 Vocab. Flashcard

Front

fellow countrymen

Back

compatriots

Front

Official statement; law

Back

Edict

Front

to set forth in detail

Back

expound

Front

Sky or heavens?

Back

firmament

Front

Sealed; airtight

Back

hermetically

Front

Filled with disease; contagious

Back

pestilential

Front

Small boxes with scripture worn by some Jewish men for prayer.

Back

Phylacteries

Front

Rob with open violence

Back

pillage

Front

Anticipation of a negative event without warning.

Back

premonition

Front

A police officer’s stick

Back

truncheon