Shutting Out the Sky: 6.1.3 (Vocabulary Practice)

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an educational talk to an audience, especially to students in higher education

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lecture

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A language used by Jewish people in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. It was originally a German dialect with words from Hebrew and several modern languages and is today spoken mainly in the US, Israel, and Russia.

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Yiddish

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full of energy and enthusiasm.

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vibrant

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a risky or daring journey or undertaking.

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venture

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of or relating to spoken language or speech sounds. representing the sounds and other phenomena of speech

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phonetic

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frown in an angry or bad-tempered way.

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scowl

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sound unsteady or hesitant or shake or quiver slightly.

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tremble

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in a manner resulting from or revealing nervousness or anxiety.

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anxiously

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the inability to read or write.

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illiterate

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a person lower than another in rank, status, or ability.

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inferior