| A | B |
| Datelined | the beginning of an article with the date it was published |
| obligingly | happy to help or volunteer |
| legislature | organization for laws |
| prickle | needle points on your skin |
| annihilate | to kill in large numbers or wipe out completely |
| territory | land that belongs to a government |
| pogrom | kill or harm a large group of people |
| perish | to be destroyed |
| junior | grade in high school 11th grade |
| extermination | complete destruction no more living people/anything |
| arrow | something that tells you which way to go |
| tormentors | a person who tortures another person |
| widow | a woman who lost her husband by death and no new husband |