“Diary of Anne Frank”
Act 2 Vocabulary
1.
inarticulate – unable to express oneself.
2.
apprehension – a fearful feeling about the future.
3.
intuition – ability to sense or know immediately, without reasoning.
4.
indignant – filled with anger at meanness or injustice.
5.
stealthily – in a secretive way, avoiding being noticed.
6.
ineffectually – without producing the desired result.
7.
guilders – monetary unit of the Netherlands (just like dollars are our monetary unit).
8.
run the gauntlet – an expression meaning to pass through a series of troubles or difficulties.
9.
Normandy – a region in northwest France, on the English channel.
10.
convulsive – having an involuntary contraction or spasm of the muscles; shuddering.
11.
Orthodox – strictly observing the rites and traditions of a religion, such as Judaism.
12.
purgatory – a state or place of temporary punishment.
13.
Auschwitz – a Nazi concentration camp in Poland that was notorious as an extermination center.
14.
Belsen – a village in Germany that, with the village of Bergen, was the site of
Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp and extermination center.
15.
Buchenwald – a Nazi concentration camp and extermination center in central
Germany.
“Diary of Anne Frank”
Act 2 Vocabulary
1.
inarticulate – unable to express oneself.
2.
apprehension – a fearful feeling about the future.
3.
intuition – ability to sense or know immediately, without reasoning.
4.
indignant – filled with anger at meanness or injustice.
5.
stealthily – in a secretive way, avoiding being noticed.
6.
ineffectually – without producing the desired result.
7.
guilders – monetary unit of the Netherlands (just like dollars are our monetary unit).
8.
run the gauntlet – an expression meaning to pass through a series of troubles or difficulties.
9.
Normandy – a region in northwest France, on the English channel.
10.
convulsive – having an involuntary contraction or spasm of the muscles; shuddering.
11.
Orthodox – strictly observing the rites and traditions of a religion, such as Judaism.
12.
purgatory – a state or place of temporary punishment.
13.
Auschwitz – a Nazi concentration camp in Poland that was notorious as an extermination center.
14.
Belsen – a village in Germany that, with the village of Bergen, was the site of
Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp and extermination center.
15.
Buchenwald – a Nazi concentration camp and extermination center in central
Germany.