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    The document defines 20 vocabulary words related to World War 2 and the Holocaust. Some key terms defined include ghetto (a section of a city where Jews were required to live), swastika (the Nazi symbol), barracks (buildings for housing soldiers), epidemic (a widespread disease), and typhus (an infectious disease spread by lice and fleas). Other terms defined relate to medical conditions, religious observances, and actions taken during wartime such as sabotage, liberation, and extermination.

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    The document defines 20 vocabulary words related to World War 2 and the Holocaust. Some key terms defined include ghetto (a section of a city where Jews were required to live), swastika (the Nazi symbol), barracks (buildings for housing soldiers), epidemic (a widespread disease), and typhus (an infectious disease spread by lice and fleas). Other terms defined relate to medical conditions, religious observances, and actions taken during wartime such as sabotage, liberation, and extermination.

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    The document defines 20 vocabulary words related to World War 2 and the Holocaust. Some key terms defined include ghetto (a section of a city where Jews were required to live), swastika (the Nazi symbol), barracks (buildings for housing soldiers), epidemic (a widespread disease), and typhus (an infectious disease spread by lice and fleas). Other terms defined relate to medical conditions, religious observances, and actions taken during wartime such as sabotage, liberation, and extermination.

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    Vocabulary Definitions

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    The document defines 20 vocabulary words related to World War 2 and the Holocaust. Some key terms defined include ghetto (a section of a city where Jews were required to live), swastika (the Nazi symbol), barracks (buildings for housing soldiers), epidemic (a widespread disease), and typhus (an infectious disease spread by lice and fleas). Other terms defined relate to medical conditions, religious observances, and actions taken during wartime such as sabotage, liberation, and extermination.

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    Vocabulary Definitions

    Ghetto - (formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were
    required to live.

    Rations - a fixed allowance of provisions or food, esp. for soldiers or sailors or for civilians
    during a shortage.

    Swastika - the official emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich.

    Barracks - a building or group of buildings for lodging soldiers, esp. in garrison.

    Epidemic - a disease affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to
    person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.

    Seize - to take possession of by force or at will: to seize enemy ships.

    Latrine - a toilet or something used as a toilet, as a trench in the earth in a camp.

    Raid - a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed.

    Infirmary - a place for the care of the infirm, sick, or injured; hospital or facility serving as a
    hospital: a school infirmary.

    Resigned - submissive or acquiescent.

    Stifling - suffocating; oppressively close.

    Boils - a painful, circumscribed inflammation of the skin or a hair follicle, having a dead,
    suppurating inner core: usually caused by a staphylococcal infection.

    Partisans - an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, esp. a person who shows
    a biased, emotional allegiance.

    Sabotaged - any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by
    enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute.

    Tuberculosis – this disease when affecting the lungs; pulmonary phthisis; consumption.

    Nettles - any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs.

    Rummage - to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), esp. by moving
    around, turning over, or looking through contents.

    Chronic - continuing a long time or recurring frequently: a chronic state of civil war.

    Yom Kipper - a Jewish high holy day observed on the 10th day of the month of Tishri by abstinence
    from food and drink and by the daylong recitation of prayers of repentance in the
    synagogue.

    Torah – the entire body of Jewish religious literature, law, and teaching as contained chiefly
    in the Old Testament and the Talmud.
    Vocabulary Definitions
    Reminisced - to recall past experiences, events, etc.

    Trudge - to walk, esp. laboriously or wearily.

    Lethargy - the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent
    and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.

    Anguished - feeling, showing, or accompanied by anguish.

    Emaciated - to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh.

    Liberate - to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.

    Succumbed - to yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc.; die.

    Typhus - an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by


    lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar
    eruption of reddish spots on the body.

    Dysentery - an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the
    bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic.

    Convulsed - to cause to suffer violent, spasmodic contractions of the muscles.

    Reign - the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.

    Extermination - to get rid of by destroying; destroy totally.

    Oppressive - burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.

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