The Giver- Pre reading vocabulary

an ideal or perfect place or state, where everyone lives in harmony and everything is for the best

• Utopia

• Dystopia

• Coming of Age

• Ceremony

a word or phrase used on place of a term that might be considered too direct, harsh, unpleasant, or offensive

• ritual

• euphemism

• euthanize

• equality

an imaginary place where everything is bad as possibly can be, or a vision or description of such a place

• ceremony

• euphemism

• utopia

• dystopia

to behave or think in a socially acceptable or expected way

• conform

• ritual

• coming of age

• ideal

to kill an incurably ill or injured person or animal to relieve suffering

• euphemism

• equality

• euthanize

• ritual

an established and prescribed pattern of observance

• ceremony

• conform

• coming of age

• ritual

an excellent or perfect example of something or somebody serving as the best or most perfect example

• conform

• ideal

• equality

• ceremony

rights, treatment, quality, or value equal to all others in a given group

• euphemism

• equality

• conform

• ideal

the reaching of the official age of adulthood and legal responsibility

• ceremony

• ideal

• coming of age

• conform

a formal event to celebrate something

• ceremony

• coming of age

• ritual

• ideal