Chapter 14-18 vocab

to ease; to make milder

• assuage

• rueful

• implore

• ominous

extreme mental or physical suffering

• rueful

• carnage

• successor

• agony

to ask sincerely, to beg

• placidly

• ominous

• implore

• assuage

full of joy or happiness

• successor

• ecstatic

• assuage

• excruciating

very painful

• rueful

• carnage

• ecstatic

• excruciating

one who follows another in office or position

• placidly

• successor

• rueful

• implore

threatening, suggesting evil or harm

• rueful

• ominous

• assuage

• carnage

feeling sorrow or pity

• agony

• rueful

• ecstatic

• excruciating

the slaughter of a great number of people

• implore

• successor

• carnage

• ominous

I was sleeping _______ when the alarm clock rang

• excruciating

• ecstatic

• assuage

• placidly