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The Giver Vocab Term

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Apprehensive   Uneasy or fearful of something that might happen  
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Nurture   To care for and protect or to support and encourage  
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Awed   Filled with or expressing an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, and fear, produced by something grand, sublime, or powerful  
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Transgession   Violation of law or command  
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Adherence   Steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment  
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Chastisement   Discipline, especially by corporal punishment  
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Raraity   Something rare, unusual, or uncommon  
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Bewildered   Completely puzzled or ocnfused  
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Nondescript   Of no recognized, definite, or particular type of kind  
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Gravitate   To have a natural tendency or be strongly attracted  
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relinquish   to renounce or surrender  
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exuberant   Effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic  
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invariably   always without exception  
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meticulous   taking or showing extreme care about minute details  
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curb   to control as with a curb  
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aptitude   innate or aquired capacity for soemthing  
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precision   accuracy  
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vibrant   characterized by perceptible  
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collective   of or characteristic of a group of individuals taken together  
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capacity   power of receiving impressions, knowledge, mental abilty  
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exempt   free from and obligation or liability to which others are subject  
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unnerving   depriving of courage, strength, determination, or confidence  
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excruciating   extremely painful  
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sucessor   a person who follows or replaces another by descent, election, appointment or the like  
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exhilarate   to make cheerful or merry  
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obsolete   no longer in general use  
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admonition   counsel, advice, caution  
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fleeting   passing swiftly  
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irrational   deprived of reason  
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assimilate   to take in and incorporate as one's own  
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anguish   suffering or pain  
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assuge   to make milder or less servere  
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isolation   separation from other persons or things  
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ominous   portending evil or harm  
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release   free from confidement  
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Carnage   the slaughter of a great number of people  
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ecstasy   an overpowering emotion or exaultation  
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percieve   to become aware of  
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permeate   to pass into or through every part of  
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luminous   radiating or reflecting light  
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efficient   capable  
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rueful   feeling showing or expressing sorrow or pity  
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emphatic   strongly expressive  
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stealthy   done, characterized or acting by stealth  
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sing-song   monotonously jingly in rhythm or pattern of pitch  
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fugitive   a person who is fleeing from prosecution  
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augmented   enlarged in size  
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vigilant   keenly watchful and alert to detect danger  
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diminish   to lessen or decrease  
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lethargy   the quality or state of being drowsy and dull  
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