What is the meaining of the word truncheon as it is used in the following sentence?

"The policeman raised his truncheon to hit her father again, and Isabel jumped in between them" (pg. 28).

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What is the meaning of the word catatonic as it is used in the passage?

"She hadn't gone nearly catatonic like Waleed, but at some point it had gotten bad enough that she just stopped talking about it" (pg. 31).

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What is the meaning of the word pfennig as it is used in the sentence?

"Josef took a hard candy from a jar and fished in his pocket for another pfennig" (pg. 22).

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What is the meaning of the word indignation as it is used in the sentence?

"He felt the stirrings of indignation, of anger, of sympathy" (pg. 17).

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What is the meaning of the word chancellor as it is used int he sentence?

" Ruther had been born the year Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany" (pg. 20).

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What is the meaning of the word omen as it is used in the following sentenc?

"That seemed like a good omen to him. A sign that they would eventually get to America"(pg. 36).

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What is the meaning of the word asylum as it is used in the following sentence?

"The shabby mean who had lurched from the shadows like an escapee from a mental asylum was Josef's father, Aaron Landau" (pg. 36).

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What is the meaning of the word asylum as it is used in the following sentence?

"Once you were in one of the EU countries, though, like Greece or Hungary or Germany, you could apply for asylum and be granted official refugee status" (pg. 90).

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What is the meaning of the word waning as it is used in the following sentence?

"It was night, and a waning moon peeked out from scattered clouds"(pg. 60).

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