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The Giver Vocab #4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Assuage | To make easier to handle (such as a burden or a task) |
| Sinuous | Snake-like and wavy (having the qualities of sinew) |
| Ominous | Showing a sign of something bad to come |
| Irrational | Unable to reason with logic (without sense and reason) |
| Assimilate | To adopt the ways and adapt into a culture or society (to fit in by blending in with everyone else) |
| Destination | The goal of a journey |
| Frigid | Freezing cold |
| Admonition | A gentle criticism |
| Agony | Extreme pain of the body or mind |
| Sparse | Very few and far between (infrequent or lightly populated) |
| Origin | The basic source or starting point of something |
| Significance | The quality of being worthy of attention or having importance |
| Isolation | Separation from other, being alone or apart from others |
| Mutilate | To badly damage something by cutting it up or destroying it in some way |
| Skeptical | Being doubtful that something is true or is as it appears to be |