Night Vocabulary List #4

Mr. Brown (United States of America)
This is a list taken from Night by Elie Wiesel for an ESL class.
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  1. greed
    insatiable desire for wealth
  2. torment
    subject to torture
  3. untenable
    incapable of being defended or justified
  4. huddle
    a disorganized and densely packed crowd
  5. lash
    a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
  6. writhe
    move in a twisting or contorted motion
  7. dispose
    throw or cast away
  8. solemn
    dignified and somber in manner or character
  9. gallows
    an instrument from which a person is executed by hanging
  10. corpse
    the dead body of a human being
Created on Sun Apr 20 09:36:32 EDT 2014

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