Vocab #4—The Giver

to make something less intense

• assuage

• ominous

• optimistic

• pervade

suggesting or threatening that something bad will happen

• assuage

• ominous

• optimistic

• pervade

hopeful about the future; has a positive outlook

• pervade

• assuage

• optimistic

• excruciating

to spread through every part of something

• pervade

• ominous

• excruciating

• imploringly

intensely painful

• ominous

• pervading

• excruciating

• assuage

desperately begging

• pervading

• excruciating

• imploringly

• optimistically

Describe a situation on which a person sees something ominous. What might they see, and why would that be ominous?

Why might a dog look imploringly at its owner?