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The Giver vocab:unit 3
| Question | Answer | Sentence |
|---|---|---|
| conveying | a means of carrying passengers or goods | A cargo ship conveys goods to one place to another. |
| admonished | a mild but serious warning | Before Martin Luther King signed the voting act, blacks weren't allowed to vote and were admonished from voting to protect their safety. |
| wry | dry humor; sarcasm | Someone made a wry comment to me that I'm not good at art,even though, I'm trying to get better. |
| hueless | colorless; without shade | Old black and white films are hueless. Today, movies are vibrant in color. |
| assimilate | to absorb knowledge | In media studies, I am assimilate about voting and why do we vote on Tuesday and know one knows why. |
| daub | to smear or cover with something soft and sticky, such as paint | The sawdust and paint were daubed all over my dad’s shirt. |
| assuage | to make less severe or more bearable. | His friends helped to assuage Brian’s pain when he broke his arm. |
| omen | something that is believed to be a sign of future good or evil | When two planes hit the World Trade center on September 11, 2001 it was feared that this was an omen. |
| sinuous | with many curves or turns; winding. | The sinuous maze was very tricky to get out of. |
| torrent | a heavy flow of water with a strong current | Some places that are near water, like the beach, experience torrents. |
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