The Giver Vocabulary Flashcards
Trudge
Walk steadily and with great effort
Solace
Relief from emotional distress or grief
Ecstatic
Feeling great pleasure or delight
Wretched
In a state of great hardship;miserable
Ominous
Creating a foreboding sense of evil
Embedded
Firmly and deeply surrounded
Empowered
Gave authority or power to
Agony
Intense pain
Inflict
To cause or impose; to deal or meet out
Assimilated
Obsorbed
Glum
Gloomy
Irrational
Without reason or understanding
Churning
Splashing or turning violently
Rueful
Feeling, showing or causing regret or pity
Languid
Without energy; slow and sluggish
Augmented
Made greater or more numerous
Vigilant
Watchful and alert
Tantalizing
Teasing by showing something desirable but continually out of reach
Impeded
Slowed the progress of ; interfered
Leaden
Very heavy, like lead