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