Night Ch. 1 Vocabulary

poverty, destitution

• penury

• insinuated

• anguish

• encircled

resembling a waif (a homeless & helpless person)

• emigrate

• infinite

• waiflike

• partisan

forced to leave a place

• annihilate

• optimism

• expelled

• edict

a person who is expelled from home or country by authority

• billeted

• disquieting

• sublime

• deportee

suggested, hinted, implied

• insinuated

• optimism

• sublime

• conflagration

destroy or defeat utterly; exterminate; wipe out

• billeted

• annihilate

• liquidated

• partisan

leave one’s own country in order to settle permanently in another

• jubilant

• disquieting

• encircled

• emigrate

causing feelings or worry, disturbing, upsetting

• insinuated

• edict

• disquieting

• surreptitiously

hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something

• optimism

• partisan

• sublime

• anguish

severe mental or physical pain or suffering

• sublime

• edict

• billeted

• anguish