Vocabulary from Elie Wiesel's Night
As you read this poignant novel, define the following words—synonyms work well. These words are SAT formatted and will enrich your vocabulary. The
approximate page numbers where the words are found are in parenthesis.
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1. penury (3):
2. waiflike (3):
3. billeted (9):
4. ghetto (12):
5. phylacteries (16):
6. surreptitiously (16):
7. surreal (17):
8. conflagration (21):
9. partisans (21):
10. inhibitions (23):
11. irrevocably (24):
12. hermetically (24):
13. abyss (25):
14. mute (27):
15. tumult (30):
16. imperative (30):
17. invectives (30):
18. crematoria (31):
19. elude (32):
20. infernal (33) :
21. antechambers (34):
22. interspersed (35):
23. oblivion (36):
24. harangued (38):
25. convalescent (38):
26. abstraction (39):
27. colic (39):
28. ascertain (39):
29. petrified (39):
30. lulled (40):
31. compulsory (41):
32. muster (41):
33. prevailing (42):
34. spectacles (43):
35. wizened (43):
36. veritable (44):
37. dehydrated (45):
38. withered (45):
39. concurred (45):
40. epidemic (47):
41. Kommandos (47):
42. altruistic (48):
43. quarantine (48):
44. pittance (48):
45. conscientiously (48):
46. emigrate (50):
47. cauldron (51):
48. infirmary (51):
49. meekly (51):
50. famished (52):
51. Aryan (52):
52. imprudent (54):
53. copulate (57):
54. credible (58):
55. dissipate (60):
56. manacled (62):
57. pipel (63):
58. sabotage (63):
59. audible (67):
60. benediction (67):
61. emaciated (73):
62. din (75):
63. chinks (77):
64. amputated (78):
65. dysentery (78):
66. deluded (79):
67. annihilate (80):
68. knell (84):
69. automatons (85):
70. sustain (85):
71. parched (88):
72. disengage (93):
73. jostling (93):
74. melancholy (95):
75. convoy (97):
76. prostrate (108):
77. riveted (109):
78. liquidated (114):