Vocabulary
1) Prefabricated
*Verb
*Manufacture sections to enable quick or easy assembly on site
*P. 163: "And a great quantity of prefabricated sections carried up from the railway station."
2)Impinge
*Verb
*Having an effect or impact
*P. 171: "Amon secretly thought that Oskar might be worried that a move into Plazow would impinge on any sweetly running little deals he had going in Cracow."
3)Convalescent
*Adjective
*(of a person) Recovering from an illness or operation
*P. 175: "The convalescent hospital was situated in what had been before the war a Polish police station."
4)Armaments
*Noun
*Military weapons and equipment
*P. 24: "Tobbens was a darling of the armaments inspectorate, which had favored him with war contracts and which he had favored in return with gifts."
5)Terminus
*Noun
*A final point in space or time; an end or extremity
*P. 233: " The question is whether Plazow survived because General Schindler was deceived by dim light and alcohol-dimmed vision, or whether it continued because it was such an excellent holding center for those weeks when the great terminus at Auschwitz-Birkenau was overcrowded."
6)Oblivion
*Noun
*The state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening
*P. 177: "He feared that more than the easy oblivion of cyanide."
7)Fraternally
*Adverb
*In a brotherly manner
*P. 130: "Again, the SS guard corrected her drift fraternally, nudged her back into line.
8)Aberration
*Noun
*A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome
*P. 130: "Oskar had seen in Krakusa Street a statement of his government's policy, which could not be written off as a temporary aberration."
9)Kennkarte
*Noun
*The basic identification card in use during the Third Reich era
*P. 121: "She took his kennkarte."
10)Shtetl
*Noun
*A small Jewish town or village in eastern Europe
*P. 120: "The old, the poor families from the shtetls, took the water in restive silence."
11)Wermacht
*Noun
*The German armed forces, esp. the army, from 1921 to 1945.
*P. 127: "It was Major Franz Von Korab of the Whermacht."
12)Bemused
*Noun
*Puzzle, confuse, or bewilder (someone)
*P. 254: "Oskar was bemused to see the way the personnel took the smoke as if the grit in the air were some sort of honest and inevitable fallout."
13)Cattle Car
*Noun
*A freight car for transporting cattle.
*P. 263: "The cattle cars were used that way all through high summer, taking troops and supplies east to the stalemated lines near Lwow and, on the return trip, wasting time at sidings while SS doctors watched ceaseless lines of the naked run before them."
14)Remit
*Verb
*Cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting
*P. 215: "It is an aspect of Caesers, Oskar knew, to remit as irrationally as the condemn."
15)Analytic
*Adjective
*True by virtue of the meaning of the words or concepts used to express it, so that its denial would be a self-contradiction
*P. 66: "Gebauer seemed to be out to mislead Toffel and Reeder by pushing the point, by seeming more passionately analytic about Jews than he really was."
16)Upholstery
*Noun
*Soft, padded textile covering that is fixed to furniture such as armchairs and sofas
*P. 249 "They were looking for three young Zionists who'd escaped in a truckload of product from the upholstery works, where they made Wehrmacht mattresses out of sea grass.
17)Byword
*Noun
*A person or thing cited as a notorious and outstanding example or embodiment of something
*P. 257: "His powers of memory were said to be a byword."
18)Subsidiary
*Adjective
*Less important than but related or supplementary to
*P. 259: "They were meant ultimately to go to the German Armament Works, DAW, which was a subsidiary of Krupp making artillery-shell fuses in the enormous complex at Auschwitz.
19)Collusion
*Noun
*Secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, esp. in order to cheat or deceive others
*P. 265: "In any case, everyone had to beware of partisan attacks from outside and, worst of all, of collusion between the partisans and the prisoners."
20)Pragmatic
*Noun
*Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations
*P. 270: "Usually, he is so pragmatic."
21)Rendezvous
*Noun
*A meeting at an agreed time and place, typically between two people
*P. 271: "Sowinski would deliver to clan to the rendezvous point in the truck.
22)Primeval
*Adjective
*Of or resembling the earliest ages in the history of the world
*P. 288: "What these Australians had been doing was dropping supplies to the partisans in the primeval forest east of Cracow."
23)Sybaritic
*Adjective
*Fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure
*P. 224: "With some of them it stuck in the craw, because they knew what a crook Goeth was, and their serious and old-fashioned patriotism was affronted by Amon's sybaritic life out there in the countryside.
24)Cordon
*Noun
*A line or circle of police, soldiers, or guards preventing access to or from an area or building
*P. 261: "Nearly 300 children had been discovered during the inspection the previous Sunday, and as they were now dragged away, the protests and wailings of parents were so loud that most of the garrison, together with security police detachments called in from Cracow, had to be thrown into the cordon separating the two groups
25)Typifies
*Verb
*Be characteristic or a representative example of
*P. 345: "Lusia the optimist had a person experience of SS inspectors that typifies the Schindler method."
*Verb
*Manufacture sections to enable quick or easy assembly on site
*P. 163: "And a great quantity of prefabricated sections carried up from the railway station."
2)Impinge
*Verb
*Having an effect or impact
*P. 171: "Amon secretly thought that Oskar might be worried that a move into Plazow would impinge on any sweetly running little deals he had going in Cracow."
3)Convalescent
*Adjective
*(of a person) Recovering from an illness or operation
*P. 175: "The convalescent hospital was situated in what had been before the war a Polish police station."
4)Armaments
*Noun
*Military weapons and equipment
*P. 24: "Tobbens was a darling of the armaments inspectorate, which had favored him with war contracts and which he had favored in return with gifts."
5)Terminus
*Noun
*A final point in space or time; an end or extremity
*P. 233: " The question is whether Plazow survived because General Schindler was deceived by dim light and alcohol-dimmed vision, or whether it continued because it was such an excellent holding center for those weeks when the great terminus at Auschwitz-Birkenau was overcrowded."
6)Oblivion
*Noun
*The state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening
*P. 177: "He feared that more than the easy oblivion of cyanide."
7)Fraternally
*Adverb
*In a brotherly manner
*P. 130: "Again, the SS guard corrected her drift fraternally, nudged her back into line.
8)Aberration
*Noun
*A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome
*P. 130: "Oskar had seen in Krakusa Street a statement of his government's policy, which could not be written off as a temporary aberration."
9)Kennkarte
*Noun
*The basic identification card in use during the Third Reich era
*P. 121: "She took his kennkarte."
10)Shtetl
*Noun
*A small Jewish town or village in eastern Europe
*P. 120: "The old, the poor families from the shtetls, took the water in restive silence."
11)Wermacht
*Noun
*The German armed forces, esp. the army, from 1921 to 1945.
*P. 127: "It was Major Franz Von Korab of the Whermacht."
12)Bemused
*Noun
*Puzzle, confuse, or bewilder (someone)
*P. 254: "Oskar was bemused to see the way the personnel took the smoke as if the grit in the air were some sort of honest and inevitable fallout."
13)Cattle Car
*Noun
*A freight car for transporting cattle.
*P. 263: "The cattle cars were used that way all through high summer, taking troops and supplies east to the stalemated lines near Lwow and, on the return trip, wasting time at sidings while SS doctors watched ceaseless lines of the naked run before them."
14)Remit
*Verb
*Cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting
*P. 215: "It is an aspect of Caesers, Oskar knew, to remit as irrationally as the condemn."
15)Analytic
*Adjective
*True by virtue of the meaning of the words or concepts used to express it, so that its denial would be a self-contradiction
*P. 66: "Gebauer seemed to be out to mislead Toffel and Reeder by pushing the point, by seeming more passionately analytic about Jews than he really was."
16)Upholstery
*Noun
*Soft, padded textile covering that is fixed to furniture such as armchairs and sofas
*P. 249 "They were looking for three young Zionists who'd escaped in a truckload of product from the upholstery works, where they made Wehrmacht mattresses out of sea grass.
17)Byword
*Noun
*A person or thing cited as a notorious and outstanding example or embodiment of something
*P. 257: "His powers of memory were said to be a byword."
18)Subsidiary
*Adjective
*Less important than but related or supplementary to
*P. 259: "They were meant ultimately to go to the German Armament Works, DAW, which was a subsidiary of Krupp making artillery-shell fuses in the enormous complex at Auschwitz.
19)Collusion
*Noun
*Secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, esp. in order to cheat or deceive others
*P. 265: "In any case, everyone had to beware of partisan attacks from outside and, worst of all, of collusion between the partisans and the prisoners."
20)Pragmatic
*Noun
*Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations
*P. 270: "Usually, he is so pragmatic."
21)Rendezvous
*Noun
*A meeting at an agreed time and place, typically between two people
*P. 271: "Sowinski would deliver to clan to the rendezvous point in the truck.
22)Primeval
*Adjective
*Of or resembling the earliest ages in the history of the world
*P. 288: "What these Australians had been doing was dropping supplies to the partisans in the primeval forest east of Cracow."
23)Sybaritic
*Adjective
*Fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure
*P. 224: "With some of them it stuck in the craw, because they knew what a crook Goeth was, and their serious and old-fashioned patriotism was affronted by Amon's sybaritic life out there in the countryside.
24)Cordon
*Noun
*A line or circle of police, soldiers, or guards preventing access to or from an area or building
*P. 261: "Nearly 300 children had been discovered during the inspection the previous Sunday, and as they were now dragged away, the protests and wailings of parents were so loud that most of the garrison, together with security police detachments called in from Cracow, had to be thrown into the cordon separating the two groups
25)Typifies
*Verb
*Be characteristic or a representative example of
*P. 345: "Lusia the optimist had a person experience of SS inspectors that typifies the Schindler method."