The Giver Vocab 1-6

to chuckle

• Chortle

• Rueful

• Defiant

• Distraught

taking or showing extreme care about small details

• Reprieve

• Meticulously

• Apprehensive

• Bewilderment

deeply upset or agitated

• Distraught

• Relinquish

• Interdependence

• Rueful

anxious or fearful that something bad/unpleasant will happen

• Apprehensive

• Congregate

• Reprieve

• Chortled

to come together in a mass/big group

• Congregate

• Chastisement

• Prominent

• Meticulously

the feeling of being confused and puzzled

• Bewilderment

• Relinquish

• Prominent

• Interdependence

to give up; to part with

• Relinquish

• Rueful

• Apprehensive

• Distraught

showing resistance; uncooperative

• Defiant

• Chastisement

• Congregate

• Bewilderment

the act of scolding or punishing someone

• Chastisement

• Meticulously

• Reprieve

• Mystified

to cancel or postpone the punishment

• Reprieve

• Interdependent

• Rueful

• Meticulously