Elie Wiesel's Night Vocab - Section One

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  1. encumbered
    loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load
  2. perilous
    fraught with danger
  3. mysticism
    a religion based on communion with an ultimate reality
  4. cabalistic
    having a secret or hidden meaning
  5. farce
    a comedy characterized by broad satire
  6. expound
    add details to clarify an idea
  7. premonition
    an early warning about a future event
  8. treatise
    a formal text that treats a particular topic systematically
  9. haggard
    very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold
  10. dregs
    sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid
  11. truncheon
    a short stout club used primarily by police officers
  12. abominable
    exceptionally bad or displeasing
  13. penury
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  14. ghetto
    the restricted quarter of European cities where Jews lived
  15. surreptitiously
    in a secretive manner
  16. surreal
    resembling a dream
  17. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  18. partisan
    an enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity
Created on Fri Sep 06 20:47:58 EDT 2013 (updated Fri Sep 06 20:48:20 EDT 2013)

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