Vocabulary RaceWords from Night by Elie Wiesel
In partners look up the words on the following slide and write down the definitions as fast as you can.
The first pair to finish wins a prize!
Task
Anti-Semitic billet farce Gestapo Cabbala Zionism dregs truncheons compatriots Passover
List of words
Definition:
Anti-Semitic
Definition:
Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.
Anti-Semitic
Definition:
billet
Definition:
Being provided with board and lodging.
billet
Definition:
farce
Definition:
An empty or patently ridiculous act, proceeding or situation.
farce
Definition:
Gestapo
Definition:
A secret-police organization employing underhanded and terrorist methods against
persons suspected of disloyalty.
Gestapo
Definition:
Cabbala
Definition:
A medieval and modern system of Jewish theosophy, mysticism, and thaumaturgy
marked by belief in creation through emanation and cipher method of interpreting
Scripture.
Cabbala
Definition:
Zionism
Definition:
An international movement originally established of a Jewish national or religious
community in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel. It supports upholding Jewish identity and opposes the assimilation of
Jews.
Zionism
Definition:
dregs
Definition:
The most undesirable/last remaining part.
dregs
Definition:
truncheons
Definition:
A baton/billy club
truncheons
Definition:
compatriots
Definition:
A person born, residing, or holding citizenship in the same country as another.
compatriots
Definition:
A Jewish holiday that commemorates the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery in Egypt.
Passover
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