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The Giver
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apprehensive | uneasy about something that might happen |
| Disposition | one’s characteristic attitude or mood |
| Transgression | the breaking of a moral or legal code or rule |
| Aptitude | a special and usually inborn ability |
| Chastise | to punish |
| Inadequate | not meeting a particular standard or need; not enough |
| Solemn | serious; not joking or playful |
| Compel | to force someone to do something |
| Skeptical | inclined to doubt or question; disbelieving, distrustful, doubting, suspicious |
| Ominous | being or showing a sign of something bad to come |