The Hiding Place: Chapters 8–11

by Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill
Holland native Corrie ten Boom had an unremarkable life until Nazi Germany invaded her family's world during World War II. Corrie became a Resistance heroine and survived Hitler's concentration camps in her true life story of faith triumphing over evil.

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  1. ostensibly
    from appearances alone
    Ostensibly we were still an elderly watchmaker living with his two spinster daughters above his tiny shop.
  2. clandestine
    conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
    I tried to imply clandestine dealings with a high occupation official.
  3. ingratiating
    calculated to please or gain favor
    I heard the alley door open and Willemse’s voice, smooth and ingratiating.
  4. welter
    a confused multitude of things
    The top of his bald head was a welter of bruises, dried blood clung to the stubble on his chin.
  5. imperturbable
    marked by extreme calm and composure
    “Name?” the interrogator inquired imperturbably.
  6. paroxysm
    a sudden uncontrollable attack
    I sank down on the narrow bed, then went into a fresh paroxysm of coughs as a cloud of choking black dust rose from the filthy straw mattress.
  7. aperture
    a usually small man-made opening
    “There’s a new one here!” the woman called Frau Mikes called through the aperture.
  8. suffuse
    cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
    Climbing on it, I fashioned a lampshade with the paper: a cheery red glow at once suffused the bleak little room.
  9. obsequious
    attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
    Was this obsequious creature the terrible-voiced terror of the women’s wing?
  10. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
    To my relief I honestly did not know any of the names he read— now I understood the wisdom of the ubiquitous “Mr. Smit.”
  11. sacrosanct
    treated as if holy and kept free from violation or criticism
    I was walking with a guard—behind and a little to the right of her so my feet would not touch the sacrosanct mat—down a corridor I had not seen before.
  12. elicit
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
    So there it was already. All the friendliness, the kindly concern that I had half-believed in—all a device to elicit information.
  13. predicate
    involve as a necessary condition or consequence
    “May I tell you the truth, Lieutenant Rahms?”
    “This hearing, Miss ten Boom, is predicated on the assumption that you will do me that honor.”
  14. incensed
    angered at something unjust or wrong
    He was incensed to learn that Father had died right here in Scheveningen; the documents on my case made no mention of it.
  15. impassive
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
    At the door to the courtyard the matron turned, erect and impassive, back along the corridor.
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