Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) Tribute List

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Elie Wiesel died on July 2 at the age of 87. Wiesel was a survivor of the Holocaust, spending time in several concentration camps, including Auschwitz. He wrote movingly about his experiences in the camps in his trilogy "Night," "Dawn" and "Day." Wiesel was a tireless crusader for human dignity and freedom around the world. His work, including his many speeches, is a constant reminder that humankind should stand up for the weak and the persecuted. Here are 10 vocabulary words from quotes by Elie Wiesel.
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  1. irrevocably
    in a manner that cannot be taken back
    I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
  2. malediction
    the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil
    I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
  3. indifference
    apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
    The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
  4. fanatic
    marked by excessive enthusiasm for a cause or idea
    In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
  5. grace
    a disposition to kindness and compassion
    Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
  6. denigrate
    cause to seem lesser or inferior
    I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.
  7. dissident
    a person who objects to some established policy
    As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.
  8. incumbent
    necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
    For us, forgetting was never an option. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
  9. despair
    a state in which all hope is lost or absent
    Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, U have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.
  10. solidarity
    a union of interests or purposes among members of a group
    This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
Created on Sat Jul 02 16:56:29 EDT 2016 (updated Sat Jul 02 18:03:47 EDT 2016)

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