Night by Elie Wiesel
Vocabulary Words
Junior English "A"
Instructions: Refer to a good dictionary as you write the definition of each word in the assigned unit.
Use notebook paper. Write clearly. Remember to include your heading in the upper left corner.
Pages 13-31
Pages 38-54
1. encumbered (p.13) – (adj. or verb)
2. waiflike (p.13) – (adj.)
3. perilous (p. 13) – (adj.)
4. mysticism (p. 14) – (n.)
5. Talmud (p. 14) – (n.)
6. cabalist (p. 14) – (n.)
7. indulgently (p. 15) (adv.)
8. lorries (p. 16) – (n.) (plural)
9. deportees (p. 16) – (n.) (plural)
10. Zionism (p. 18) – (n.)
11. billeted (p. 19) –(v.)
12. farce (p. 19) – (n.)
13. grim (p. 20) –(adj).
14. anecdotes (p. 22) – (n.) (plural)
15. firmament (p. 22) – (n.)
16. expound (p. 22) – (v.)
17. premonition (p. 22) –(n.)
18. treatise (p. 22) – (n.)
19. haggard (p. 23) – (adj.)
20. dregs (p. 23) – (n.) (plural)
21. knapsacks (p. 25) – (n.) (plural)
22. truncheons (p. 27) – (n.) (plural)
23. abominable (p. 25) – (adj.)
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Pages 32-37
1. hermetically (p. 33) – (adv.)
2. abyss (p. 34) – (n.)
3. monotonous (p.35) – (adj.)
4. bewildered (p. 35) – (adj.)
5. pestilence (p. 35) – (n.) Note: the book uses
the word "pestilential"
6. stench (p.35) – (n.)
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unremittingly (p. 40) (adv.)
bestial (p. 43) –(adj.)
crematory (p. 41) (n.)
barracks (p. 43) (n.)
lucidity (p.45) – (n.)
tunic (p. 45) (n.)
leprous (p.47) – (adj.)
reverie (p. 48) – (n.)
wizened (p. 51) (adj.)
congealing (p. 53) – (v.)
blandishments (p. 54) – (n.)
Pages 55-72
1. hooligan (p. 56) (n.)
2. bespectacled (p. 57) (n.)
3. emigrate (p. 58) – (v.)
4. sanctity (p. 58) (n.)
5. innumerable (p. 58) – (adj.)
6. queue (p. 59) (n.)
7. indifferently (p. 59) (adv.)
8. reprieve (p. 60) (n.)
9. reminisce (p. 61) (v.) Note: book uses the
word "reminiscing"
10. clout (p. 63) (n.)
11. Imperceptibly (p.66) – (adv.)
12. interlude (p. 68) (n.)
13. manacle (p. 69) (v.)
14. Livid (p. 71)- (adj.)
15. raucous (p. 71) (adj.)
Night by Elie Wiesel
Vocabulary Words
Pages 73-90
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afflicted (p. 73) – (adj.)
Kaddish (p. 75) (n.)
atonement (p. 76) (n.)
avidly (p. 79) – (adv.)
emaciated (p. 79) (adj.)
interminable (p. 79) (adj.)
crucible (p. 81) –(n.)
din (p.82) – (n.)
balm (p.85) – (n.)
fortnight (p. 86) (n.)
summarily (p. 87) – (adv.)
emaciated (p. 79) (adj.)
Pages 91-102
1. automatons (p. 91) – (n.)
2. entities (p.92) – (n.)
3. stifled (p. 92) – (adj. or v.) Note: This is the
past tense form
4. famished (p. 93) – (adj.)
5. indeterminate (p. 93) (adj.)
6. encumbrance (p. 97) – (n.)
7. semblance (p. 98) (n.)
8. vigilance (p. 100) (n.)
9. embarkation (p. 102) (n.)
Pages 103-108
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indifference (p. 104) – (n.)
grimace (p. 107) – (n.)
tether (p. 107) – (v. or n.)
contagion (p. 108) (n.)
Pages 109-119
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hillock (p. 110) – (n.)
plaintive (p. 111) – (adj.)
beseeching (p. 111) – (v.)
rivet (p. 114) (v.) Note: book uses the past
tense, "riveted"
5. spasmodically (p. 116) – (adv.)
6. liquidated (p. 118) – (v.)
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Junior English "A"