Vocabulary RaceWords from Night by Elie Wiesel

In partners look up the words on the following slide and write down the definitions as fast as you can.

The first pair to finish wins a prize!

Task

Anti-Semitic billet farce Gestapo Cabbala Zionism dregs truncheons compatriots Passover

List of words

Definition:

Anti-Semitic

Definition:

Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.

Anti-Semitic

Definition:

billet

Definition:

Being provided with board and lodging.

billet

Definition:

farce

Definition:

An empty or patently ridiculous act, proceeding or situation.

farce

Definition:

Gestapo

Definition:

A secret-police organization employing underhanded and terrorist methods against

persons suspected of disloyalty.

Gestapo

Definition:

Cabbala

Definition:

A medieval and modern system of Jewish theosophy, mysticism, and thaumaturgy

marked by belief in creation through emanation and cipher method of interpreting

Scripture.

Cabbala

Definition:

Zionism

Definition:

An international movement originally established of a Jewish national or religious

community in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel. It supports upholding Jewish identity and opposes the assimilation of

Jews.

Zionism

Definition:

dregs

Definition:

The most undesirable/last remaining part.

dregs

Definition:

truncheons

Definition:

A baton/billy club

truncheons

Definition:

compatriots

Definition:

A person born, residing, or holding citizenship in the same country as another.

compatriots

Definition:

A Jewish holiday that commemorates the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery in Egypt.

Passover