Collection 5: Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife

As you read Francine Prose's "Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 8's Collection 5: The Diary of Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, After Auschwitz
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  1. intersperse
    place between or among
  2. genocide
    systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
  3. demographic
    a statistic characterizing human populations
  4. ineradicable
    not able to be destroyed or rooted out
  5. refuge
    a shelter from danger or hardship
  6. incisive
    demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
  7. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  8. tangential
    of superficial relevance if any
  9. emblematic
    serving as a visible symbol for something abstract
  10. Philip Roth
    United States writer whose novels portray middle-class Jewish life (born in 1933)
  11. impervious
    not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
  12. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
  13. barbarity
    the quality of being cruel, inhumane, or uncivilized
  14. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  15. perspective
    a way of regarding situations or topics
  16. influential
    having or exercising power
  17. engage
    consume all of one's attention or time
  18. enduring
    unceasing
  19. transcend
    go beyond the scope or limits of
  20. unbosom
    relieve oneself of troubling information
Created on Wed Jul 16 12:55:32 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:25:53 EDT 2014)

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