The Giver Vocabulary

to correct or punish

• chastise

• expertise

• obsolete

• prestige

personality; attitude

• excruciating

• disposition

• relinquish

• assimilated

watchful and alert

• reprieve

• vigilant

• obsolete

• aptitude

with fear or trepidation; suspiciously

• spontaneously

• apprehensive

• prestige

• irrationally

occurring naturally, without being planned

• apprehensive

• irrationally

• spontaneously

• unanimous

in a state of great hardship; miserable

• wretched

• profound

• prestige

• remorse

appreciation; enjoyment

• expertise

• benign

• relish

• relinquish

one that follows another in a job or office

• wretched

• unanimous

• expertise

• successor

extremely painful

• assimilated

• dumbfounded

• excruciating

• disposition

to get or obtain possession

• prestige

• chastise

• remorse

• acquire