The Giver Vocab #5 Review

A verb, meaning to walk heavily and firmly, due to weariness or difficult terrain (such as mud or sand)

• Trudge

• Yearn

• Subside

• Emerge

A verb, meaning to desire strongly or persistently

• Yearn

• Trudge

• Subside

• Emerge

A verb, meaning to wear off or die down

• Subside

• Trudge

• Recede

• Emerge

An adjective, describing something as deficient in amount, or quality, or extent

• Meager

• Augmented

• Rueful

• Wretched

An adjective, describing something which has been added to or made greater in amount, number or strength

• Augmented

• Meager

• Wretched

• Emphatically

An adverb, describing an action as being done without question and beyond doubt

• Emphatically

• Wretchedly

• Meagerly

• Ruefully

An adjective, describing something which expresses or has feelings of pain/sorrow for past sins or offenses

• Rueful

• Wretched

• Miserable

• Perilous

An adjective, describing something as being unhappy and full of misery

• Rueful

• Wretched

• Emerge

• Peril

A verb, meaning to come up to the surface or rise

• Emerge

• Rise

• Yearn

• Subside

A noun, meaning a source of danger

• Peril

• Wretched

• Rueful

• Haphazard