The Giver Chapters 13 - 23 Vocabulary

Match the following

• augmented

• teasing by showing something desirable but out of reach

• tantalizing

• slowed the progress of; interfered

• leaden

• very heavy; like lead

• impeded

• made greater or more numerous

• vigilant

• watchful and alert

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• agony

• intense pain

• assimilated

• an integral part of something

• sinuous

• without reason or understanding

• embedded

• graceful and agile; full of smooth bends and curves

• irrationally

• absorbed; understood

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• solace

• to get or obtain possession

• churning

• relief from emotional distress or grief

• rueful

• splashing or turning violently

• acquire

• without energy; slow and slugish

• languid

• feeling, showing or causing regret or pity

Match the following

• empowered

• to cause or impose; to deal or mete out

• inflict

• gave authority or power to

• wretched

• in a state of great hardship; miserable

• excruciating

• an idea occurring later

• afterthought

• extremely painful

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• expertise

• walk steadily and with great effort

• trudged

• very unhappy; dispirited; disappointed

• dejected

• dreary; gloomy

• glum

• special skill or knowledge

• injustice

• unfair treatment

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• wisp

• feeling great pleasure or delight

• ecstatic

• spread throughout; penetrated

• anguish

• fragment; trace

• permeated

• mental pain; distress or anxiety

Match the following

• assuage

• to less the intensity of pain or discomfort; to calm

• ominous

• with a calm nature and appearance

• placidly

• foreboding sense of evil