The Giver Chapters 14-18 Vocabulary

Extreme mental or physical suffering

• ominous

• agony

• placidly

• implore

feeling or showing sorrow or pity

• rueful

• agony

• excruciating

• ecstatic

Threatening; suggesting evil or harm

• assuage

• placidly

• carnage

• ominous

What is the definition of carnage?

• threatening; suggesting evil or harm

• calmly, peacefully

• the slaughter of a great number of people.

• To ask sincerely or beg.

What does it mean to "implore"?

• extremely painful

• full of immense joy or happiness

• to ask sincerely or beg

• one who follows another in office or position.

Define "successor"

• one who follows another in office or postion

• feeling or showing sorrow or pity

• to make milder or less sever; to ease

• calmly, peacfully

to make milder or less sever; to ease

• placidly

• carnage

• assuage

• agony

Full of immense joy

• excruciating

• ecstatic

• implore

• placidly

Define "excruciating".

• feeling or showing sorrow or pity

• full of immense joy or happiness

• one who followings another in office or positon

• extremely painful

Calmly, peacefully

• placidily

• carnage

• ominous

• agony