Maus Vocab List

The branch of industry involved in the manufacture of cloth.

• credit

• hosiery

• tenant

• textile

A man who is not and has never been married.

• governess

• bachelor

• seamstress

• credit

Stockings, socks, or tights.

• communist

• pants

• hosiery

• pogrom

Fish cakes boiled in a fish or vegetable broth and usually served chilled.

• gefilte fish

• riot

• seafood

• conspiracy

A woman who sews, especially one who earns her living by sewing.

• sanitarium

• cake

• seamstress

• communist

A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.

• gangsters

• conspiracy

• swastika

• frontier

A person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord, usually someone renting an apartment.

• governess

• hosiery

• landlord

• tenant

The ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.

• governess

• credit

• card

• knick- Knack

Having uncontrolled extreme emotion.

• hysterical

• funny

• riot

• credit

An establishment for the medical treatment of people who have a mental illness.

• credit

• pie

• sanitarium

• hemorrhaging