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The Giver #1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| apprehensive | Viewing the future with anxiety or alarm. Feeling or showing fear and apprehension about the future. |
| distraught | Agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain. Showing a disordered state of mind. |
| disposition | The usual attitude or mood of a person or animal. The tendency to act or think in a certain manner. |
| transgression | Infringement or violation of a law |
| awe | a strong feeling of fear or respect and also wonder. |
| enhance | to increase or improve (something) |
| adherence | the act, action, or quality of adhering; to stick to something : to attach firmly to something |
| fret | to cause to suffer emotional strain |
| aptitude | a natural ability to do something or to learn something |
| appeal | A legal proceeding by which a case is brought before a higher court for review of the decision of a lower court |
| chastise | to criticize (someone) harshly for doing something wrong |
| reluctantly | in a reluctant manner : with aversion or hesitation (feeling or showing doubt about doing something : not willing or eager to do something) |
| remorse | a feeling of being sorry for doing something bad or wrong in the past : a feeling of guilt |
| dwelling | a shelter (such as a house) in which people live |
| regulate | to bring (something) under the control of authority |
| serene | marked by or suggestive of utter calm and unruffled repose or quietude |
| tabulated | to arrange information in an organized way so that it can be studied, recorded, etc. |
| frail | easily broken or destroyed and/or physically weak |
| nuisance | a person, thing, or situation that is annoying or that causes trouble or problems, |
| labor | physical or mental effort: work |