Vocab for the book Night

emigration

leaving one place to go to another

profoundly

absolutely

treatise

a written discussion of a topic

Melancholy

sadness or depression

anecdotes

short humorous stories

surname

a persons last name

deportees

a person that is expelled from their country

insignificant

trivial, not important

Stench

a horrible smell

Barracks

a room that would hold many soldiers

fatigue

weariness from labor

Sentimental

referring to though/feeling rather than reason

trenches

a cut in the earth or a ditch

conflagration

a large fire or war

horrendous

horrible

intolerable

unbearable

Gypsies

a nomatic group of people known for cheating

lieutenant

an officer in armed forces usually serving a higher ranked official

hallucinate

to imagine things

notorious

know for something good or bad

harangue

a forceful speech directed to an audience