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Vocab: The Giver
Vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rasping | scraping or grating with a rough tool (often making a grating sound) |
| Distraught | mentally worried, emotionally upset, or panicked. |
| Distracted | Turned away the mind’s focus or ability to pay attention, to lose concentration. |
| Wheedle | to persuade with flattery |
| Nurturer | one who takes care of, feeds |
| Disposition | a person’s general way of acting |
| Transgression | act or instance of breaking the law |
| Apprehensive | Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant might happen |
| Aptitude | natural ability, talent, capacity to achieve |
| Chastise | to punish; reprimand severely |
| Rarity | person or thing that is uncommon |
| Palpable | able to be touched or felt |
| Petulantly | ill-humored; peevish (with a rude, childish attitude) |
| Bewilderment | A state of confusion or complete puzzlement. |
| Nondescript | without interesting or striking characteristics (plain or unremarkable) |