English - "Night" Novel Vocabulary

Surname - a family name

Encumbered - hundered; restricted

Insignificant - trivial; not important

Profoundly - absolutely; in an unqualified way

Deportees - people who are expelled from a country

Emigration - leaving one area to settle in another

Treatise - written discussion of a topic

Anecdotes - short, humorous stories

Melancholy - sadness; depression

Constraint - restrictions

Provisions - necessary supplies, such as food

Hermetically - sealed against the entry or escape of air

Pestilential - likely to cause an epidemic

Notorious - known widely and unfavorably; infamous

Devoid - completely lacking or empty

Monocle - an eyeglass for one eye

Lucidity - clear understanding

Convalescent - returning to health after an illness

Blandishments - coaxing by flattery

Convoy - a group of vehicles traveling together

Frenzy - violent mental agitation or wild excitement

Torment - to cause physical pain or mental anguish

Thrash - beat; hit

Latter - second of two

Raucous - boisterous and disorderly

Sabatoge - treacherous action to defeat a cause

Lamentation - grief; mourning

Void - emptiness

Emaciated - made thin due to starvation

Elapsed - passed

Feeble - lacking strength; weak

Evacuation - withdrawing troops or civilians

Relentlessly - steadily; persistantly

Deprive - to take something away from

Bereaved - left alone by death

Apathy - lack of emotion or feeling

Livid - ashen; pallid

Dregs - the least desirable portions

Vitality - vigor; energy

Tether - the limit of one’s recources or endurance

Contagion - harmful influence

Plaintive - expressing sorrow

Recesses - remote, secret places