PICTURE DICTIONARY

By: Amanda Ewert

ANNIHILATE Destroy utterly; obliterate.

ANTI-SEMITIC  hostility toward or discrimination

against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

APATHY  lack of feeling or emotion

CONSCIENTIOUS Guided by or in accordance with the

dictates of conscience; principled

CONDEMNED to declare to be reprehensible, wrong, or

evil usually after weighing evidence and without reservation

CREMATORIUM crematory: a mortuary where corpses

are cremated

LIBERTY The state of being free within society

from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life.

ENCUMBRANCE a thing that impedes or is burdensome;

hindrance

ENLISTED  To engage the support or cooperation

of.

EXPELLED Force (someone) to leave a place, esp. a

country.

FAMISHED Extremely hungry.

FORTNIGHT a period of 14 days : two weeks

GESTAPO The German internal security police as

organized under the Nazi regime, known for its terrorist methods directed against those suspected of treason or questionable loyalty.

GHETTO  a section of a city in

which all Jews were required to live.

KABBALAH A body of mystical teachings of

rabbinical origin, often based on an esoteric interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures.

MIESTER one who is knowledgeable about

something specified

MOURNFUL Feeling or expressing sadness, regret, or

grief.

LIQUIDATED To put an end to; abolish.

PROVISIONS The action of providing or supplying

something for use.

QUARANTINE

• A state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.

RABBI a Jew trained and ordained for

professional religious leadership; specifically : the official leader of a Jewish congregation

RELENTLESSLY Steady and persistent; unremitting

STUPEFIED Make (someone) unable to think or feel

properly

TRUNCHEON  a shattered spear or lance

ZIONISM an international movement originally for

the establishment of a Jewish national or religious community in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel