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9 Cards in this Set
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social constraint
"Free from all social constraint, young people gave way openly to instinct, taking advantage of the darkness to flirt in our midst..." (18). |
social limitations |
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authority
"'From this moment, you come under the authority of the German army'" (18). |
power to determine or settle disputes |
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hermetically sealed
"The doors were nailed up; the way back was finally cut off. The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed" (18). |
airtight |
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pious
"Her husband, who was a pious man, spent his days and nights in study..." (18). |
religious devotion |
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abyss
"With every groan of the wheels on the rail, we felt that an abyss was about to open beneath our bodies" (19). |
deep gulf or chasm; immeasurable space |
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monotonous
"We could hear the wheels churning out that monotonous rhythm of a train traveling through the night" (20). |
lacking in variety; unchanging |
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pestilential stench
"The heat, the thirst, pestilential stench, the suffocating lack of air--these were as nothing compared with these screams which tore us to shreds" (20). |
incredibly offensive odor |
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indifferent
"Once more she had become dumb, indifferent, absent, and had gone back to her corner (21). |
not caring; apathetic |
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abominable
"We looked at the flames in the darkness. There was an abominable odor floating in the air" (21). |
detestable; loathsome; hateful |
