1. ACTIVITY D1
Picture Dictionary
By: Todd Pickel

2. TALMUD
• The collection of Jewish law and tradition

3. ANGUISH
• To inflict with distress, suffering, or pain

4. BENEDICTION
• A formal blessing

5. GESTAPO
• German acronym for the German Secret State Police,
part of the SS notorious for terrorism against enemies
of the state

6. PREMONITION
• Feeling that something is about to happen, especially
something bad

7. BOCHE
• WWI derogatory French slang for a German, usually a
soldier

8. MELANCHOLY
• Low spirits; depression

9. MONOTONOUS
• Uttered or sounded in one unvarying tone

10. BILLETED
• Lodged; used to refer to temporary lodging of military
personnel in private homes or other private
establishments

11. LORRY
• A truck

12. SONDER KOMMANDO
• Group of prisoners that worked in the crematories

13. ABSTRACTION
• A generality; an idea or thought separated from
concrete reality

14. SIESTA
• Midday or afternoon rest or nap

15. ACHTUNG
• German for “attention”

16. BLANDISHMENTS
• Flattering remarks that are meant to be persuasive

17. APATHY
• Lack of interest or emotion, indifference

18. COUNTENANCE
• Face or features of the face

19. DERISION
• Scorn; ridicule

20. DYSENTERY
• intestinal inflammation causing abdominal pain and
severe diarrhea; often fatal if left untreated in the very
young or old or in those who are weakened by hunger
or other disease

21. EXPOUNDING
• Sating in detail; explaining

22. HARANGUED
• Scolded, especially in a noisy or bullying way

23. HERMETICALLY
• In an airtight way

24. IMPLORED
• Begged; pleaded sincerely

25. INERT
• Motionless; lacking the ability to move or act

26. PILLAGE
• To loot; to rob of property