Night: Pages 85–115

by Elie Wiesel
In this unflinching memoir, Elie Wiesel describes his experience as a young man imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust.

This list covers pages 85–115 in the 2006 Hill and Wang edition.

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  1. parched
    extremely thirsty
    Chilled to the bone, our throats parched, famished, out of breath, we pressed on.
  2. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
    Not a sound of distress, not a plaintive cry, nothing but mass agony and silence.
  3. apathy
    an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
    From time to time, SS officers on motorcycles drove the length of the column to shake off the growing apathy...
  4. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
    Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
  5. disheveled
    in disarray; extremely disorderly
    I must have been very dirty and disheveled, to judge by what the others looked like.
  6. dregs
    a small part that remains after the main part is gone
    The days resembled the nights, and the nights left in our souls the dregs of their darkness.
  7. ensue
    take place or happen afterward or as a result
    In the wagon where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued.
  8. maul
    injure badly
    Men were hurling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at and mauling each other.
  9. detention
    a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
    Less undernourished than the rest of us, detention had been easier on him.
  10. vulnerable
    susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation
    He had become childlike: weak, frightened, vulnerable.
  11. grudgingly
    in a reluctant manner
    I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy. I was aware that I was doing it grudgingly.
  12. prostrate
    stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
    Suffering from dysentery, my father was prostrate on his cot, with another five sick inmates nearby.
  13. curtly
    in an abrupt and discourteous manner
    He stared at him, then asked curtly:
    “What do you want?”
  14. unprecedented
    novel; having no earlier occurrence
    He was late. Such lateness was unprecedented in the history of Buchenwald.
  15. provisions
    a stock or supply of foods
    Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That’s all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.
Created on Tue May 31 15:19:39 EDT 2022 (updated Fri Jun 27 17:02:26 EDT 2025)

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