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Penury
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Extreme poverty; destitution
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Waiflike
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anything
found, or without an owner; apparently homeless
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Billeted
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to
lodge soldiers in a private house
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Ghetto
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the
district in a city where Jews were compelled to confine themselves
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Phylacteries
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Small leather cases,
containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men at morning prayer
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Surreptitiously
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in a stealthy, well-hidden, or secretive manner
usually refering to movement
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Surreal
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Resembling a dream; unreal;
fantastic
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Conflagration
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A destructive fire, usually an extensive one
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Partisans
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fervent, sometimes militant, supporters or proponents of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea
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Inhibitions
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Something that restrains, blocks, or suppresses
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Irrevocably
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not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed
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Hermetically
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So as to be airtight
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Abyss
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a bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.
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Mute
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Silent; not making a sound
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Tumult
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violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar
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