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The Giver CH. 20-23
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| anguish | suffering or pain; excruciating or acute distress |
| assuage | to relieve; ease; make milder or less severe |
| carnage | massacre; the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle |
| ecstatic | a state of sudden, intense feeling; an overpowering emotion; rapturous delight |
| isolation | aloneness; loneliness; separation from other persons or things |
| luminous | radiating or reflecting light shining; bright |
| ominous | foreboding; threatening; portending evil or harm |
| perceive | to recognize, discern, envision, perceivable; to become aware of; know, or identify by means of sense |
| permeate | to pass into or through every part of; to be diffused through; saturate |
| release | free from confinement, bondage, obligation, or pain |