The Giver: Vocabulary 13-17 Flashcards
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Sinuous
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Graceful and agile; full of smooth bends and curves
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Irrationally
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Without reason or understanding
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Assimilated
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Absorbed; understood
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Embedded
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Firmly and deeply surrounded
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Agony
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Intense pain
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Assuage
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To lessen the intensity of pain or discomfort; to calm
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Ominous
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Creating a foreboding sense of evil
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Placidly
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With a calm nature and appearance
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Anguish
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Mental pain,discomfort,and anxiety
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Ecstatic
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Feeling great pleasure or delight
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Wisp
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Fragment; trace
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Permeated
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Spread throughout; penetrated
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Injustice
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Unfair treatment
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Expertise
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Special skill or knowledge
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Trudged
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Walked steady with effort
