Hiroshima Vocab

These are the flash cards that go to some of the vocabulary found in John Hershey's book, Hiroshima. My group and I took turns looking for unknown or difficult words as we read the book to do well on the vocabulary portion of our test on this book.

30 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Diocese
District under juresdicion
Solicitous
Anxious
Terminus
The end of a bus route
Diathermy
Method of therapy using heat
Xenophobia
Unreasonable hatred for foreigners
Prefecture
The office
Convivial
Fond of drinking
Ailed
To cause phyisical or mental pain
Dissertation
Formal essay for a doctoral degree in college
Moxabustion
Burning of the moxa on the skin
Unassailable
Not open to attack
Talismanic
Remarkable influence on humans
Incendiaries
Setting property on fire
Immolate
To sacrifice
Putrescence
Foul decay