night vocab

1. penury (n)

extreme poverty

2. synagogue (n)

a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.

3. Passover (I)

a Jewish holiday commemorating the Hebrews' liberation from slavery in Egypt

4. truncheon (n)

the club carried by a police officer

5. Rosh Hashana (n)

a Jewish high holy day that marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year

6. unremitting adj

never slackening or stopping; constant

7. Hasid (n)

a sect of Jewish mystics founded in Poland, characterized by religious zeal and a spirit of prayer, joy, and charity

8. lucidity (n)

easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible

9. encumbrance (n)

something that is burdensome or a hindrance (gets in the way)

10. compulsory (adj)

required; mandatory; obligatory

11. automaton (n)

a person who acts mechanically

12. indeterminate (adj)

vague, not fixed in advance

13. appeasing (v)

satisfying, pacifying, pleasing

14. wizened (adj)

dry, shrunken, wrinkled

15. dysentery (n)

infection of the intestine with bacteria

16. pittance (n)

an inadequate payment

17. manacle (v)

to handcuff

18. blandishment (n)

Something used to coax (persuade)

19. invective (n)

abusive language used to express blame

20. compatriot (n)

fellow countryman