Section 4
Night by Elie Wiesel
Altruistic
• Page 48
•Unselfishly charitable.
Concerned for others.
• In fact, this affection was not entirely
altruistic; there existed here a veritable traffic
of children
Quarantine
• Page 48
• Isolation to prevent spread
of disease. Alone.
• You will stay with me for three days in
quarantine. Afterward, you will go to work.
Evoke
• Page 50
• To summon or to call up
feelings.
• And so we would sometimes hum melodies
evoking the gentle waters of the Jordan River
and majestic sanctity of Jerusalem.
Sanctity
• Page 50
• Holy, saintliness, sacred.
• And so we would sometimes hum melodies
evoking the gentle waters of the Jordan River
and majestic sanctity of Jerusalem.
Wrath
• Page 54
• Fierce anger. Strong and
stern punishment.
• Why couldn’t he have avoided Idek’s wrath?
Gallows
• Page 61
• Wooden frame for
execution by hanging.
• As we returned from work, there, in the
middle of camp, stood a black gallows.
Manacled
• Page 62
• Handcuffed
• His manacled hands did not tremble.
Section 5
• Vocabulary words
• Pages 66-84