Absolution
Forgiveness of an offense; a setting free from guilt or sin
Abundant
Amply supplied
Anti-Semitism
A prejudice against Jews
Aryan
A term used by the Nazis to signify the "master race" of people of northern European descent
Barrack
A building or set of buildings used especially for lodging soldiers in garrison
Bungalow
A small house or cottage, usually containing a single story
Cataract
A clouding of the lens of the eye or the surrounding transparent membrane that obstructs the passage of light
Claustrophobic
Having a fear or dread of closed spaces
Conjugate
To list the forms of a verb
Convalesce
To recover health and strength gradually after a sickness or weakness
Crematorium
An establishment containing a furnace for burning (usually bodies)
Dowry
The money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage
Gefilte Fish
A ground, deboned fish recipe using a variety of kosher fish meat
Gestapo
The official secret police of Nazi Germany
Ghetto
A quarter of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure
Governess
A woman who cares for and supervises a child, especially in a private household
Marks
German currency
Meshuga
Yiddish word for "crazy" or "foolish"
Miserly
Stingy, cautious with money
Munitions
Ammunition, armaments
Naugahyde
A synthetic leather made from plastic
Nitrostat
Medicine taken for relief of angina, chest pains caused by a lack of blood flow to the heart muscle
Notary
An officer who can administer oaths and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate documents, and perform certain other official acts
Nu
A Yiddish word roughly equivalent to "so?" or "well?"
Oy Gevalt
A Yiddish expression of exasperation
Pogrom
An organized massacre of helpless people, especially of Jews
Pragmatic
Practical, as opposed to idealistic
Presumptuous
Overconfident, audacious, arrogant
Sanitarium
An institution for rest and recuperation
Schnell
A German word meaning "faster"
Sheik
An Arab chief; a man held to be irresistibly attractive to romantic young women
Shrink
A slang term for a psychiatrist
Shvartser
A Yiddish word for a black or African-American man
Textile
A woven or knit cloth; a fiber, filament, or yarn used in making cloth
Tuchus
A Yiddish word meaning "rear end"
Valentino, Rudolph
A movie star in the 1920s, one of the first great Hollywood sex symbols
Valise
A suitcase
Wehrmacht
A German word for the Nazi armed forces
Yiddish
A language written in Hebrew and spoken by Jews
Zloty
A unit of Polish currency
