Night by Elie Wiesel Vocabulary Words & Definitions

There is so much more to Elie Wiesel's account of the Holocaust than vocabulary, which is why this list was created. Instead of spending hours going through the book to locate words that may be difficult for your students, use this list and identify the words your students may not know, or words that may need to be strengthened. The difficultly of the words included in this list varies since this list can be used with students as young as seventh grade and with students as old as seniors or in college.

This list can assist with lesson planning and can be used with indirect and direct vocabulary lessons. Some of these words are vital to student understanding and comprehension of the text, whereas others may already be known by the students since abilities always vary! While teaching this novel to my students, I would directly teach some of the words, whereas others would be defined using context clues in the text or discuss the importance of a certain word in that chapter.

Included on the following pages:

• Chapter vocabulary and definitions, organized in order from which they appear in the novel
  • All definitions were located using dictionary.com

• If the word contained a prefix or suffix in the novel and could not be defined in that form, the word from the text is in parentheses with the root word defined.
• Page numbers in which the word may be located in the novel, Night
  • The copy of Night used was the 2006 version with the new translation by Marion Wiesel and a new preface by Elie Wiesel
    • ISBN-13: 78-0-3 74-50001-6
    • ISBN-10: 0-374-50001-0

• The part-of-speech of the word that is being defined