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The Giver

Vocabulary from The Giver

TermDefinition
apprehensive uneasy or fearful about something that might happen
awed filled with or expressing an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, and fear, produced by something grand, sublime, or powerful
transgression violation of a law or command; sin
adherence steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment
bewildered completely puzzled or confused; perplexed
relinquish to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.)
meticulous taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough
curb to control as with a curb; restrain; check
exempt free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release
excruciating extremely painful; causing intense suffering, unbearably distressing;
successor a person who follows or replaces another by descent, election, appointment or the like
obsolete no longer in general use; fallen into disuse
fleeting passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transitory
assuage to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate
ominous portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious
release free from confinement, bondage, obligation, or pain
perceive to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses; to recognize, discern, envision, or understand
rueful feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful;
vigilant keenly watchful and alert to detect danger; wary
diminish to lessen; decrease
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