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Giver Vocab Ch 15-19
the Giver Chapter 15-19 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| burden | (noun) a difficult or worrying responsibility or duty |
| carnage | (noun) widespread slaughter or massacre |
| concept | (noun) a thought or notion |
| despite | (preposition) regardless of something |
| ecstatic | (adj) showing or feeling great pleasure or delight |
| grief | (noun) great sadness |
| horde | (noun) a large group of people |
| immobilize | (verb) to fix in place, to stop or disable |
| inflict | (verb) to cause damage, harm, or unpleasantness to somebody or something |
| luminous | (adj) bright or shining |
| optimistic | (adj) tending to take a hopeful and positive view of future outcomes |
| precise | (adj) exact or specific |
| rigid | (adj) stiff, not flexable |
| solitude | (noun) the state of being or living alone |
| vague | (adj) not clearly felt. understood or recalled |