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10 Cards in this Set
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brink
"I had known that he was at the end, on the brink of death, and yet I had abandoned him" (77). |
extreme edge |
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plaintive
"A plaintive, beseeching voice caught me in the spine: 'Eliezer...my son...bring me...a drop of coffee...'" (77). |
expressing sorrow; mournful |
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beseeching
"A plaintive, beseeching voice caught me in the spine: 'Eliezer...my son...bring me...a drop of coffee...'" (77). |
to make urgent appeal |
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livid
"He was lying on a plank, livid, his lips pale and dried up, shaken by tremors" (78). |
deathly pale; ashen |
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dysentery
"Struck down with dysentery, my father lay in his bunk, five other invalids with him" (78). |
disease of the bowel with severe diarrhea |
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labored
"His breathing was labored, thick" (79). |
heavy; done with difficulty |
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delirious
"'Son, they keep hitting me!...I thought he was delirious" (79). |
disturbed state of mind from illness that includes illusions, confusion, and incoherence |
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idleness
"I spent my days in a state of total idleness. And I had but one desire--to eat" (82). |
inactive; doing nothing |
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liquidated
"We learned that the camp resistance organization had decided not to abandon the Jews and was going to prevent their being liquidated" (82). |
to get rid of, especially by killing |
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provisions
"Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions....Nothing but bread" (83). |
supplies of food |
