Night Chapters 1-3 Vocabulary

To be weighed down by a heavy weight or burden is to be

• stench

• expound

• encumbered

• pestilential

a system of contemplative prayer and spirituality aimed at achieving direct intuitive experience of the divine 

• farce

• stench

• Mysticism

• hermetically

Short, entertaining, personal stories

• anecdotes

• pestilence

• leprous

• abominable

Explain or interpret; clarify

• monotonous

• expound

• unremittingly

• blandishments

Exaggerated comedy; something ridiculous

• hermetically

• lucidity

• congealing

• farce

Sealed in a completely airtight way

• pestilence

• congealing

• abominable

• hermetically

Tiresome (because of little or no variation)

• monotonous

• stench

• lucidity

• blandishments

Fatally contagious or infectious disease

• stench

• pestilence

• unremittingly

• leprous

Offensive smell or odor

• encumbered

• lucidity

• pestilence

• stench

Nasty and disgusting; highly unpleasant; very bad

• abominable

• congealing

• farce

• stench