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The Giver Vocab Term
| 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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