The Giver ch 16-20 vocabulary

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Not marked by interesting events

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uneventful

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Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness

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Ecstatic

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Hopeful and confident about the future

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Optimistic

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Spread throughout; pervade

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Permeated

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sad and depressed; dispirited

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dejected

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Cause suffering

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Inflict

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destroy or ruin

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devastated

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Authority or power to do something

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empowered

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in a forceful way

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emphatically

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Comfort in distress

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Solace