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The Giver 10-14
Vocabulary: Chapters 10-14The giver
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| isolation | Separation from other, being alone or apart from others |