The Giver: Chapters 13-16 Vocabulary Words

Intensely painful

• serene

• excruciating

• boundary

• anguish

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.

• irrational

• vague

• grotesque

• contorted

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.

• optimistic

• imploring

• parched

• ecstatic

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

making an earnest or desperate appeal.

• imploring

• disturbing

• accused

• anesthetic

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate

• assuage

• placidly

• immobilized

• luxuriates

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

no longer produced or used; out of date.

• boundary

• excruciating

• placidly

• obsolete

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a person or group of people who are charged with or on trial for a crime; or charged with wrongdoing

• luxuriates

• assuage

• accused

• grotesque

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Extremely or completely dried up or very thirsty

• accused

• parched

• imploring

• anesthetic

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

something (such as a river, a fence, or an imaginary line) that shows where an area ends and another area begins

• boundary

• serene

• contorted

• ectastic

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Not logical or reasonable

• optimistic

• obsolete

• anguish

• irrational

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4