The Giver Vocabulary Section 6

Expert skill or knowledge in a particular field.

• Foliage

• Serene

• Expertise

• Rueful

A person or thing that follows another.

• Inflict

• Luminous

• Frazzled

• Successor

Cause something unpleasant or painful to happen.

• Solace

• Inflict

• Languid

• Surged

A surprise attack by people lying in wait in a concealed position.

• Ambush

• Syringe

• Rueful

• Inflict

Moved suddenly and powerfully forward or upward.

• Chastise

• Serene

• Warily

• Surged

Walked slowly with heavy steps because of harsh conditions.

• Injustice

• Foliage

• Trudged

• Expertise

Calm, peaceful, and untroubled

• Serene

• Successor

• Ambush

• Dejected

A tube fitted with a hollow needle for injecting or withdrawing fluid.

• Counter

• Injustice

• Rueful

• Syringe

Scold or reprimand severely.

• Chastise

• Solace

• Languid

• Frazzled

Behaving in a sneaky way.

• Counter

• Stealthy

• Solace

• Haphazard