Night: Chapters 6-9 Vocabulary

Moving mechanical devices that imitate human beings

• bureaucrats

• provisions

• dregs

• automatons

Overcome with grief, she gave a ____ eulogy at the funeral.

• prostrate

• plaintive

• prevailing

Answer explanation

Plaintive means "sounding sad and mournful."

Gone beyond the range or limits of something abstract

• unprecedented

• emaciated

• billeted

• transcended

Lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern

• sympathy

• empathy

• apathy

After finishing the marathon, the runner collapsed, ____ with exhaustion.

• untenable

• inert

• surreptitiously

• convalescent

Answer explanation

Inert means "lacking the ability or strength to move."

The most worthless parts of something

• dregs

• idleness

• dysentery

• barracks

During WWII, civilians received a ____ of food to ensure that soldiers oversees would have enough to eat.

• feeble

• din

• ration

• apathy

Answer explanation

Ration means "a fixed amount of a commodity."

He felt ____ after the intense workout.

• feeble

• unprecedented

• novel

• plaintive

Answer explanation

Feeble means "lacking physical strength."

Laziness or a state of inaction 

• novel

• ration

• provisions

• idleness

Never done or known before

• untenable

• unprecedented

• billeted

• altruistic