The Giver Chapter 1-10 Vocabulary

"I apologize for inconveniencing my learning community."

Chapter 1

• causing trouble or difficulty

• lacking distinctive or interesting features or characteristics

• voluntarily ceasing to keep or claim

• free from obligation or liability

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"I'm feeling apprehensive," he confessed, glad that the appropriate descriptive word had finally come to him.

Chapter 2

• anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen

• deep regreat or guilt for a wrong committed

• voluntarily cease to keep or claim

• very complicated or detailed

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic."

Chapter 3

• lacking distinctive or interesting features or characteristics

• mutual reliance of two or more people on each other

• an asset or object bought or obtained

• very complicated or detailed

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Each family member ... would relinquish him without protest or appeal when he was assigned to his own family unit..."

Chapter 6

• give up; voluntarily cease to keep or claim

• free from obligation or liability

• cause trouble or difficulty

• anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets ... so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence."

Chapter 6

• mutual reliance of two or more people on each other

• an asset or object bought or obtained

• free from obligation or liability

• very complicated or detailed

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The bed ... was draped with a splendid cloth embroidered over its entire surface with intricate designs."

Chapter 10

• very complicated or detailed

• important, famous

• lacking distinctive or interesting features or characteristics

• anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Choose the word that correctly matches the definition: 
Ability 

• petulant 
• chastise 
• nurture 
• aptitude 

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"I guess I just got distraught, watching them."

• upset
• sick
• scared

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"...or she would be called in for chastisement because of her insensitive chatter."

• study
• scolding
• questioning

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic."

• uniform
• loose-fitting upper garment
• skin

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4