The Giver Vocab14-17

wry

• outdated; no longer in use

• pleasantly calm or peaceful

• feeling or expressing distress or irritation

• expressing a combination of humor and regret; ironic

placid

• intense physical or mental suffering

• exactness and accuracy of expression or detail

• pleasantly calm or peaceful

• to utter suddenly or inadvertently

fretful

• feeling or expressing distress or irritation

• intense physical or mental suffering

• experiencing a state of sudden, intense, overpowering emotion

• outdated; no longer in use

agony

• to utter suddenly or inadvertently

• exactness and accuracy of expression or detail

• intense physical or mental suffering

• pleasantly calm or peaceful

obsolete

• expressing a combination of humor and regret; ironic

• outdated; no longer in use

• exactness and accuracy of expression or detail

• pleasantly calm or peaceful

blurt

• pleasantly calm or peaceful

• exactness and accuracy of expression or detail

• to utter suddenly or inadvertently

• experiencing a state of sudden, intense, overpowering emotion

precise

• intense physical or mental suffering

• outdated; no longer in use

• exactness and accuracy of expression or detail

• expressing a combination of humor and regret; ironic

ecstatic

• experiencing a state of sudden, intense, overpowering emotion

• pleasantly calm or peaceful

• intense physical or mental suffering

• outdated; no longer in use