The Giver Vocabulary 5-8

inducing feelings of anxiety or worry.

• indolence

• disquieting

• reprieve

• exuberance

to give relief or deliverance to for a time

• reprieve

• disquieting

• relinquish

• infringe

in a way that does not use reason or clear thinking

• irrationally

• prestige

• benign

• reprieve

state of joyful unrestrained enthusiasm

• exuberance

• scrupulously

• disquieting

• reprieve

actively break the terms of a law or agreement

• indolence

• scrupulously

• infringe

• exuberance

intensely painful

• excruciating

• indolence

• prestige

• benign

with great effort to avoid doing wrong

• reprieve

• infringe

• meticulously

• scrupulously

how well someone or something is regarded

• prestige

• relinquish

• infringe

• reprieve

gentle; kindly

• benign

• indolence

• exuberance

• relinquish

avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness

• disquieting

• irrationally

• prestige

• indolence