Vocabulary Word for Chapters 13 - 14  of  The Giver - assuage

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It was not enough to assuage the pain that Jonas was beginning, now, to know.

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Write a short definition for the word assuage.

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Circle the 6 words that mean the same as assuage.

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Write a sentence with the word assuage.

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Which sentence(s) use(s) the word assuage correctly? Put T for True or F for False.

______________  The doctor gave his patient a medication to assuage the pain.

______________  The air condition was used to assuage the high humidity of the Alabama summer.

______________ The pounding rock-n-roll music was used to assuage the girl's headache.