Refugee Vocab Quiz Chapters 1-10

bureaus

• critical speed

• writing desk: especially one having drawers and a slant top

• the bow of the ship

• the base of an upright structure

synagogues

• a small grocery store

• a passageway into compartments or rooms

• to change course or direction

• the house of worship and communal center of a Jewish congregation

Despair

• a state of violence

• a state of confusion

• utter loss of hope

• a pair of emotions,unidentified

Rationing

• an unsupported position

• torn to shreds

• a food allowance for one day

• an unbeliever with respect to a particular religion

Communist

• a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed

• a society without a publicly enforced government

• the rule of the people

• the rule of various judges

Recoil(ed) (mark all that apply)

• a wild uproar

• to fall back under pressure

• to change course or direction

• to shrink back physically or emotionally

Paranoid

• feeling of extreme confidence and belief in oneself

• very nervous

• having extreme or unreasonable fear or suspicion

• very excited

Dictator

• a person with limited governmental power

• a person with no governmental power

• a person granted no emergency power

• a person granted absolute emergency power

indignation

• a feeling of love brought on by an act of selflessness

• a feeling of righteous anger

• a feeling of well-being

• a feeling of indulging in something without consequences

A porter is:

• a person employed to carry luggage and supplies

• a device that will enable time travel with the assistance of a scientist

• an artificial passage for water