Refugee Vocabulary | Part 2

What is the meaning of bar mitzvah?

• The name of the protests that occurred in a number of Arab Countries.

• The night when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property.

• A Jewish religious ritual and family celebration commemorating the religious adulthood of a boy on his 13th birthday.

• A traditional Cuban meal.

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What is the meaning of outstretched?

• Extended or stretched out (especially of a hand or arm).

• Overwhelmed; one that has taken on too much responsibility.

• Flexible; capable of bending without easily broken.

• Crouching in fear.

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What is a hijab?

• A tattoo that is given to an Arab child on their thirteenth birthday.

• A vehicle that is commonly used as a taxi in foreign countries.

• A type of government.

• A head covering worn in public by some Muslim women.

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What is the meaning of Daesh?

• The Syrian goddess of protection.

• A name used to refer to ISIS/ISIL, the radical Sunni Muslim organization.

• The capital of Syria.

• The language spoken by Syrians.

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What is a tyrant?

• A judge in a court of law.

• A person who uses violence and intimidation for political gain.

• A cruel and oppressive ruler, whose power has no limit.

• An member of Hitler's Nazi Youth.

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What is a synagogue?

• The building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction.

• The highest leader of the Jewish religion.

• The religious book of the Jewish people.

• The name of the Jewish God.

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What is the Torah?

• A traditional Jewish meal.

• A Jewish religious ceremony.

• (in Judaism) the law of God revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Bible.

• The Islamic Holy Book.

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What were the Nuremberg Laws?

• Laws that granted protection to refugees.

• Laws that made it illegal to persecute Jewish people.

• Anti-Semitic (anti-Jewish) and racist laws that legalized the persecution of the Jewish people.

• Laws put in place that officially ended the Holocaust.

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What does it mean to refrain?

• To stop oneself from doing something.

• To say or express something in a different way.

• To do something again.

• To train someone to do something multiple times.

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What is a throng?

• An eating utensil.

• A large, densely packed crowd of people or animals.

• A net used for catching a large amount of fish.

• A type of undergarment.

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