The Giver Vocabulary Flashcards

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Trudge

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Walk steadily and with great effort

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Solace

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Relief from emotional distress or grief

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3
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Ecstatic

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Feeling great pleasure or delight

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4
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Wretched

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In a state of great hardship;miserable

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5
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Ominous

A

Creating a foreboding sense of evil

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Embedded

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Firmly and deeply surrounded

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Empowered

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Gave authority or power to

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Agony

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Intense pain

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Inflict

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To cause or impose; to deal or meet out

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10
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Assimilated

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Obsorbed

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11
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Glum

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Gloomy

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12
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Irrational

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Without reason or understanding

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13
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Churning

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Splashing or turning violently

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Rueful

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Feeling, showing or causing regret or pity

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15
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Languid

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Without energy; slow and sluggish

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Augmented

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Made greater or more numerous

17
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Vigilant

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Watchful and alert

18
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Tantalizing

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Teasing by showing something desirable but continually out of reach

19
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Impeded

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Slowed the progress of ; interfered

20
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Leaden

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Very heavy, like lead