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Giver Vocab Ch 10-14
Question | Answer |
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Assuage | (verb) to make easier to handle (such as a burden or task) |
Sinuous | (adj) snake-like and wavy |
Ominous | (adj) showing a sign of something bad to come |
Irrational | (adj) unable to reason with logic |
Assimilate | (verb) to adopt the ways and adapt into a culture or society |
Destination | (noun) the goal of a journey |
Frigid | (adj) freezing cold |
Admonition | (noun) a gentle criticism |
Agony | (noun) extreme pain to the body or mind |
Sparse | (adj) very few |
Origin | (noun) the basic source of something |
Significance | (noun) having importance |
Isolation | (noun) separation from others |
Mutilate | (verb) to mess up by cutting or destroying in some other way |
Skeptical | (adj) being doubtful that something is true or is as it appears to be |