ANNE FRANK: WORDS TO KNOW! By: Emily Miller

Period 4

Anti-Semitic

Activities and/or words against Jewish people (usually hateful)

Ghetto

Jews were then forced to move into tiny, overcrowded quarters in a small section of the city. These areas, cordoned off by walls and barbed wire

Star Of David

6 pointed star, Jewish Faith

Holocaust

•an act of mass destruction and loss of life

Miep Gies

was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and several family friends in an attic annex above Anne's

father's place of business from the Nazis during World War II.

August 4, 1943

The Franks are done with hiding. The Gestapo discovered the Annex.

Crematorium

Building that housed the ovens in the concentration camps

Menorah

Candle stick. Used for Hanukkah.

Auschwitz

Death camp, in Poland.

Zyklon B

Poisoned gas, used in the concentration camps.

Latkes

Potato pancakes

Pim

Anne’s nickname for Mr. Frank

Hitler

•German Nazi dictator during World War II

Dramatic Licenses

Changes made in a play, overall effects

B.B.C

British Broadcasting Corporation

W.C

Water closet, “bathroom”

Epistle

a specially long, formal letter

Idiom

is an expression, word, or phrase that

has a figurative meaning that is

comprehended in regard to a common

use of that expression that is separate from

the literal

Livid

•furiously angry

Suppressed

•kept from public knowledge

Audible

•heard or perceptible by the ear

Pedantic

overly concerned with minute details or formalisms,

especially in teaching

D-Day

•date of the Allied landing in France, World War II

Cynical

selflessness of others

Eloquence

•powerful and effective language

Use of Ellipses

In formal writing, is to show that you’ve

omitted words

Melancholy

•a feeling of thoughtful sadness

Superfluous

•excess: more than is needed, desired, or required

Wrath

• Anger

Prospectus

is a legal document that institutions and businesses

use to describe the securities

Suffice

•be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity

Optimist

•a person disposed to take a favorable view of things

Pessimist

•a person who expects the worst

Disdainful

•contemptuous: expressing extreme contempt

Oppressive

Weighing heavily on the senses or spirit

Adroit

•quick or skillful or adept in action or thought

Boisterous

•noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

Eloquence

•powerful and effective language

Sufficient

•of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant

Judicious

•marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters