The Giver Vocab - Ch 12-23

Cynthia's _________ to be careful echoed in his ears - but someone might be down there.

• anguish

• admonition

• augmented

• solace

She took some _______ in knowing he had the power to protect her.

• anguish

• assuage

• solace

• languid

The development of the town is _______ by the lack of transportation and grocery stores.

• augmented

• dejected

• trudged

• impeded

The Russians absorbed and ____________ a variety of cultures into their daily life.

• assimilated

• aguish

• permeated

• wretched

I put the phone down and felt ______ after the conversation about the death of my friend.

• placidly

• dejected

• trudged

• augmented

"'They have never known pain,' he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely, and he rubbed his throbbing leg. He eventually slept. Again and again he dreamed of the ________ and the isolation on the forsaken hill.'"

• languid

• wretched

• anguish

• excruciating

expressing sorrow or regret, especially when in a slightly humorous way

• anguish

• wretched

• wisp

• rueful

make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

• anguish

• assuage

• assimilated

• admonition

to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense; to supplement (to add to something)

• trudged

• languid

• permeated

• augmented

Bobby _____ to the bench and sat down, overwhelmed with feelings of loss.

• impeded

• dejected

• rueful

• trudged