Vocabulary Chapters 11-16

Transportation wasn't a practical thing in the community so it became obsolete. Everyone just rode bicycles. Obsolete in this sentence means...

• used often as possible

• no longer in general use

• temporarily or on hold

• considered dangerous

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Jonas remembered the admonition by the Elders not to discuss his training with anyone. In this sentence admonition means...

• encouragement

• threat

• warning

• opinion

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.2.4E

"This time it had been Fiona who had undergone that fleeting, indescribable change. It happened so quickly but he could tell it was her hair." -- In this sentence the word "fleeting" means...

• strangely

• unexplainable

• passing swiftly

• passing slowly

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

After the first Receiver failed, people had access to the memories and it was painful. After the memories were assimilated, they realized their need for a Receiver. Assimilated as used in this sentence means...

• absorbed and taken in

• taken away

• ignored completely

• divided evenly

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Jonas was filled with anguish when his bone cracked after he was thrown from the sled. In this sentence anguish means...

• fear

• pain

• excitement

• anger

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Jonas pleaded with the Giver to assuage the pain by giving him medication. What does assuage mean as used in this sentence?

• maximize

• increase

• lessen; ease

• eliminate completely

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Jonas could not share his pain with his family and felt desperately lonely. That night he dreamed of his isolation and pain. In this sentence isolation means...

• anguish

• emptiness

• fearlessness

• loneliness

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Jonas realizes that being unable to change rules in the community were no longer humorous but now it seemed ominous, knowing nothing could ever be changed. In this sentence, ominous means

• strange

• evil; foreboding

• different

• positive

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

It seemed irrational to Jonas that he had to receive everyone's memories, and they could never be shared by anyone. In this sentence, irrational means......

• without reason

• without humor

• without confusion

• without feeling

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Father hopes that after all the extra time he has given to Gabrielle, they do not release him. In this sentence release means...

• transfer him

• assign him to another family

• take him away

• free him from pain

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C