Collection 5: Night

As you read Elie Wiesel's "Night," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 9's Collection 5: Night, Is Survival Selfish?, Deep Survival, The Leap, The End and the Beginning
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  1. SS
    special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
  2. reprieve
    the act of postponing or remitting punishment
  3. emaciated
    very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold
  4. regulate
    fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
  5. execute
    carry out or perform an action
  6. depot
    a station for loading and unloading passengers or goods
  7. flimsy
    not convincing
  8. crucible
    a vessel used for high temperature chemical reactions
  9. decisive
    determining or having the power to determine an outcome
  10. inheritance
    any attribute that is passed down from ancestors
  11. verge
    the limit beyond which something happens or changes
  12. despair
    a state in which all hope is lost or absent
  13. insist
    be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
  14. din
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
  15. reassure
    give or restore confidence in
Created on Wed Jul 16 15:17:42 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:24:21 EDT 2014)

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