The Diary of Anne Frank Act II Vocabulary

a written or spoken agreement

• contract

• downcast

• blackmail

• ideals

looking downward/feeling despondent

• standstill

• downcast

• indignation

• bewildered

not able to be changed or adapted

• standstill

• downcast

• bewildered

• rigid

a situation or condition in which there is no movement or activity

• rigid

• indignation

• standstill

• blackmail

perplexed and confused; very puzzled

• blackmail

• bewildered

• contract

• downcast

the action of demanding payment or another benefit from someone in return for not revealing damaging information about them

• blackmail

• ideals

• contract

• standstill

a person or thing regarded as perfect

• indignation

• ideals

• standstill

• rigid

anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment

• indignation

• bewildered

• ideals

• blackmail

an aim or plan

• realization

• inarticulate

• forlorn

• intention

an act of becoming fully aware of something as a fact

• realization

• apprehension

• intuition

• intention