Vocabulary

=Essential Vocabulary=


 * Chapter 1: //1946: Trials// **
 * Dignitaries**(3)- a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church.
 * Goose Stepping** (4)- to march in a goose step: Troops goose-stepped past the reviewing stand.
 * Insignia** (6)- a badge or distinguishing mark of office or honor:
 * Bulbous**(6)- bulb-shaped
 * Purulen//t//** (7)- full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus
 * Effusive**(7)- unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve
 * Castration**(7)- to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
 * Grotesque**(8)- odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
 * Funereal**(8)- mournful; gloomy; dismal
 * Stupor**(8)- suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants,etc.
 * Exudation**(8)- a discharge of certain elements of the blood into the tissues.
 * Suppuration**(8)- festering, maturation, purulence, pus.
 * Disdainful**(7)-arrogant
 * Resignation**(9)- an accepting, unresisting attitude, state, etc.; submission; acquiescence
 * Resolute**(10)- characterized by firmness and determination, as the temper, spirit, actions, etc.
 * Euthanasia**(10)- Also called mercy killing: the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition; painless death.
 * Vaulted**(14)- an arched structure, usually made of stones, concrete, or bricks, forming a ceiling or roof over a hall, room, sewer,or other wholly or partially enclosed construction.
 * Sullenness**(12)- persistently and silently ill-humored; morose.


 * Chapter 2: //Spiders Hatched// **


 * Ensnared**//(22)//**-** To catch, to trap.
 * Zealot**//(22)//**-** A fanatical person
 * Incontrovertible**//(22)//**-** Unquestionable.
 * Unfathomable**//(25)//**-** Incapable of being understood.
 * Harangue**//(26)//**-** A long, pompous speech.
 * Obsolete**//(38)//**-** No longer in use
 * Zeal(**//40)//**-** Enthusiastic, diligent devotion in pursuit of a goal
 * Ennobling**//(40)//**-** To make noble in quality
 * Gymnasium-** Middle school/ high school, grades 5-13 at the highest level.
 * Crescendo-** Gradual increase in volume or sound.
 * Rhineland-** Region in Germany.
 * Kirche-** Church in Germany
 * Juden-** Jews
 * Ardent**//(29)//**-** characterized by warmth of passion or desire.
 * Imminent**//(35)//**-** About to occur.
 * Armistice**//(37)//**-** Truce, treaty.

Chapter 3: //Full of Hope//
T**umultuous**- Loudness or riot of a crowd
 * Insignia**-A badge or rank of membership
 * Disdainful**- to look of scornfully
 * Exudation**- Judged as of appearence
 * Supperation**- Formation of discharge or puss
 * Castration**- To remove genetalia of the male
 * Solemness**- Showing of ill humor
 * Anti-Semite**- A person who is against another race of people
 * Caduceus**- Winged staff of Hermese that is a symbol of medical proffessions
 * Hyper Inflation**- Major increase in the amount of currency resulting in higher prices

Chapter 4: //Not Asleep, Not Awake//

 * Policlinic**- place where wide range of health services can be obtained without the need of overnight stay
 * Briquettes**- block of flammable matter used to start a fire
 * Monogrammed**- design consisting of alphabetic letters combined or interlaced
 * Chastised**- To punish
 * Shunting**- A small hole which moves or allow movement of fluid from one part of the body to another
 * Parried**- Deflect, ward off
 * Outflanked**- To outmaneuver or bipass
 * Cannonades**- assault with artillery fire
 * Lamented**- to express grief for or about
 * Swindler**- a cheat, fraud, hustler
 * Endocrinology**- branch of biology dealing with endocrine glands and their secreations
 * Tantalizing**- pocessing a quality that arouses or stimulates desire or interest
 * Vagabonds**- leading an unsettled or carefree life

**Chapter 5: We Were Still Young**
**Epidemiology**-the branch of medicine dealing with the incidence and prevalenceof disease in large populations and with detection of the sourceand cause of epidemics and infectious disease
 * Eugenics -** the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualitiesof the human species or a human population, especially by suchmeans as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits
 * Opaque-** not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
 * Shrapnel-** shell fragments.
 * Neue Pensionzum Schwarzwald**
 * Praktikum- Internship**
 * Herren-**
 * Treatise-** A formal systematic exposition in writing of the principles ofa subject, generally longer and more detailed than an essay
 * Hypodermic-**

Chapter 6: The Throat of the Monster

 * Defendant(s)** (112)- a person against whom an action or claim is brought in a court of law
 * Syphilitics** (113)- Study of the venereal disease, syphilis
 * Pathology** (113)- The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes
 * Emigrated** (114)- To leave one country to settle in another
 * Acrid** (115)- Sharp, pungent, or bitter to the taste or smell
 * Bureaucracy** (115)- a government system for having jobs
 * Pittance** (118)- a meager monetary allowance, wage, or remuneration
 * Undulate (ing)** (131)- to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion

Chapter 7: A Cruel Gospel

 * Adjourned-**to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time
 * Armistice** -a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce
 * Dalliance-** a trifling away of time; dawdling; amorous toying; flirtation.
 * Resolute-** characterized by firmness and determination, as the temper, spirit, actions, etc.
 * Paternal-** characteristic of or befitting a father;
 * Derelicts-** a person abandoned by society, especially a person without a permanent home and means of support; vagrant; bum.
 * Wares-** any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are salable
 * Forlorn-** desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition,or appearance; lonely and sad: forsaken.
 * Ominous-** portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious:
 * Disarmed-** to divest or relieve of hostility, suspicion, etc.; win the affection or approval of; charm

Chapter 8: Other Strengths
R**everie** (168)
 * Saxon** (147)
 * Ruddy** (148)
 * Amidst** (148)
 * Municipal** (150)
 * Ethical** (150)
 * Antiquated** (151)
 * Vindicated** (152)
 * Envious** (153)
 * Bulbous** (155)
 * Interloping** (155)
 * Acumen** (156)
 * Scaffold** (157)
 * Incompetent** (157)
 * Solemnly** (159)
 * Perfunctory** (159)
 * Defiant** (161)
 * Retrospect** (163)
 * Grimaces** (163)
 * Encroaching** (164)
 * Editorialize** (164)
 * Condolences** (165)
 * Espaliered** (166)
 * Decorum** (170)
 * Mortification** (171)

Chapter 9: To Gain the Future

 * Exuberance**- joy
 * Defile**- make foul
 * Orate-** lecture
 * Zither**- German musical instrument
 * Gilded**- gold plated
 * Giddy**- filled with elation
 * Brothel**- house of ill repute
 * Burgeoning**- expanding
 * Simultaneously**- at the same time
 * Bodega**- Spanish dance form


 * Chapter 10: We have lost so much **
 * Anatomical (194)- of or pertaining to anatomy**
 * Briquetta (194)- block of flammable matter used as fuel to start and maintain a fire**
 * Colicky(197)- form of abdominal pain**
 * Disdain(199)- feeling of content for someone or something regarded as inferior**
 * Jaundiced(201)- a yellowish pigmentation of the skin**
 * Drudgery (204)- menial; distateful; dull; or hard work**
 * Incessant (207)- unending; continuing without interruption**
 * Sedative (207)- soothing; calming; or tranquilizing effect**

Chapter 11: The Right Thing

 * poliomyelitis**(210)- an acute and something devastating viral disease
 * deference**(212)- submission
 * teeming**(213)- swarming with something
 * dogma**(214)- a doctrine
 * lamentable**(219)- mournful; expressing grief
 * precarious**(223)**-** dangerously lacking in security
 * strodgy**(223)- heavy, dull, uninteresting
 * bourgeous**(225)- the middle class
 * sordid**(226)- dirty, filthy
 * policlinic**(229)- the department of a hospital or health care facility that treats out patients

Chapter 12: It was Easier that Way

 * Grotesque** (236) - outlandish or bizarre as in character or appearance
 * Mutti** (240) - mommy
 * Volkischer Beobachter** (242) - newspaper of Nazi party
 * Anonymity** (235) - one that is unknown
 * Falsetto** (237) - a male voice in a upper register beyond its normal range
 * Reichstag** (242) - big open street
 * Ulcerous** (250) - having ulcers or an ulcer
 * Diphtheria** (253) - acute contagious infection caused by the bacteria corynebacticrium diphtheria
 * Degeneracy** (245) - corrupt, vulgar or vicious behavior

Chapter 13: In this Direction
I**mbeciles** (263)- an inferior person; stupid I**nfielity** (296) -a belif in post war religion
 * Anthropology** (264): the study of the human body
 * Congreate** (298) - a grouping
 * Disparaged** (276): belittle; discredit
 * Damnable** (292)- extremely bad/unpleasant (292)
 * Disheveled** (295)- untidy; disoderly (295)
 * Disparaged** (276): belittle; discredit
 * Morphology** (264)- the study of the structure of an organism
 * Tourniquets** (298) - a device that checks blood flow
 * Yiddish** (299) - Language used by the Jews in Germany

Chapter 14: We Cannot Go Back

 * Deposition** (289)- a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually done in a lawyer's office
 * Self-Anointed** (288)- self-proclaimed; to dedicate to the service of God without influence of others
 * Fervor** (292)- state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
 * Infidelity** (296)-quality of being unfaithful
 * Tourniquets** (298)- bandage that stops the flow of blood
 * Congregate** (298)- brought together into group or crowd
 * Festering** (298)- ripening and generating puss
 * Swath (**299)- path or strip
 * Scrolls** (298)- document that can be rolled up

Chapter 15: The Best Interests of the Volk

 * idealism**(301)- the act of envisioning things in an ideal form
 * indifference**(301)-having no particular interest or concern
 * sterilization**(302)-to deprive a person or animal of the ability to reproduce
 * eugenics**(302)-study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding
 * inexorably**(302)- not capable of being persuaded by entreaty
 * imbeciles**(302)- a stupid or silly person
 * incorrigibles**(302)- incapable of being corrected
 * gastroenterology**(308)-a branch of medicine concerned with structure, functions or diseases.

Chapter 16: A Devil Among Devils
**X-ray burns** (338) – Rodent burns- X-ray damages tissue **Zylklon B-gas** (326) - The poison that was dropped in crystal form, through a small hole in the ceiling, into the gas chambers. **The Sonderkommando** (334) – Work units of Nazi death camp prisinors made up of Jews, they were killed later.
 * Prodding** (319) – to jab or poke with a pointed object
 * Currants** (320) – any of varrous deciduous, spinless shrubs
 * Exuded** (321) – to emit ( a liquid or gas) gradually
 * Sustenance** (321) – the supporting of life or health maintenance
 * Noxious** (321) - harmful to living things; injuvious to health.
 * Calloued** (322) – emotionally hardened
 * Maccibre** (323) – suggesting the honor of death and decay; gruesome
 * Fetiel** (323) – having an offensive odor
 * Procession** (324) – a group of persons, vehicles or objects moving in an orderly, formal manor
 * Litany** (325) – a repetitive or incantatery recited
 * Staccato** (326) – short broken up and separated
 * Zyklon** (326) – poisonous gas used to kill prisoners in large numbers
 * Asphyxiated** (326) – to suffocate or choke

Chapter 17: The Wrong Time
**Banalities (344)- A trite or obvious remark ** **Invariably (344)- On every occasion always ** **Immense (345)- Extremely large or great ** **Furlough (346)- Leave of absence ** **Abruptly(348)- Quickly and without warning ** **Lurched (348)- Make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements ** **Truncheons (349)- A staff or baton acting as a symbol of authority ** **Reverberated (351)- Be repeated several times as an echo ** **Heed (357)- Pay attention to; take notice of ** **Meticulously (358)- In a meticulous manner; showing great attention to detail ** **Thronged (359)- Fill or be present in a place or area **

Chapter 18:An Unfeeling Tool

 * gawk** (365)- an ackward person


 * prodded** (365)- poked with a pointed object


 * veneer** (370)- a thin decorative covering over another surface


 * reverie** (372)- daydream; condition of being lost in thought

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Chapter 22: I Made My Choices

 * Adjourn** (435)- To suspend to future time.
 * Roving** (436)- To wander aimlessly.
 * Accosting** (436)- Confronting.
 * Frenzied** (437)- Frantic or wild.
 * Embankment** (441)- A bank or mound.
 * Denazification** (441)- The ridding of Nazism or Nazi influences.
 * Baize** (435)- Usually green woolen fabric.
 * Mortars** (436)- Indirect fire weapon.
 * Naphtha** (448)- A petroleum derivative.