New Word Study for Number the Stars and the Holocaust
Test: Friday November 14th
1. Holocaust - the systematic murder of 11 million people at the hands of the Nazis, among them 6 million Jews. (noun)
2. exterminate - to kill or rid (verb)
3. typhus - a deadly disease spread by lice. (noun)
4. ghetto -an enclosed neighborhood designed to contain Jews (noun)
5. Copenhagen - capital of Denmark (noun)
6. Gypsy - name given to Romani and Sinti people of Europe; travelers. (noun)
7. kroner - Danish money (noun)
8. sabotage - to set something up to fail (verb or noun)
9. Resistance- Partisans; secret groups set up to sabotage the Germans (noun)
10. contempt - hate (noun)
11. intricate - fancy; complicated (adjective)
12. unruly - uncontrolled (adjective)
13. torment - to cause bodily or emotional harm (verb)
14. disdainfully - in a hateful disrespectful way (adverb)
Bonus: Auschwitz-Birkenau
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