Chapter 7
DEFINITION: Lack of interest, concern or sympathy.
What is indifference?
SYNONYMS: Stick out; project.
What is protruded?
SYNONYMS: Unmatched; unequalled.
DEFINITION: Lacking physical strength, as a result of age or illness.
What is feeble?
Where is Elie Wiesel from?
Where is Sighet, Romania? (Also accepting Transylvania)
DEFINITION: A visually striking event or scene.
What is a spectacle?
DEFINITION: Susceptible to harm.
What is vulnerable?
DEFINITION: LAZINESS
What is idleness?
DEFINITION: Persistently worrying or distressing; or biting/nibbling persistently
What is gnawing?
Who is described as "unsentimental" at the start of the story?
Elie's father.
SYNONYMS: Wail; weeping; mourning.
DEFINITION: A large metal pot used for cooking over an open fire.
What are cauldrons?
DEFINITION: Never having happened before.
What is unprecedented?
DEFINITION: Perplexed and confused; very puzzled.
What is bewildered?
Why does Elie go to the infirmary in Buna?
SYNONYMS: Starving; thin.
What is undernourished?
SYNONYMS: Innermost; remote place.
What are recesses?
WORD PARTS: Prefix: pro (before) and Latin root: vis = “to provide”
What are provisions?
SYNONYMS: Remembering, reflecting with nostalgia.
What is reminiscing?
After arriving in Gleiwitz and getting into the barracks, what does Elie see/hear?
What is Juliek playing the violin?
SYNONYMS: Coldness; Lack of concern.
WORD PARTS: Prefix: con (with), Latin root: "sci" = "to know", suffix: "-ence" = State of being.
What is a conscience?
SYNOYNM: Indolence, laziness.
What is idleness?
WORD PARTS: Ancient Greek Root: "melas" meaning black.
What is melancholy?
Who is himself/Elie/a corpse?