The Giver: Chapters 1 - 8 Vocabulary Review

Intrigue

Occasionally, when supplies were delivered by cargo planes to the landing field across the river, the children rode their bicycles to the riverbank and watched, intrigued, the unloading and then the takeoff directed to the west, always away from the community.

• cause to be interested or curious

• laugh at with contempt and derision

• deeply agitated especially from emotion

• check and sort carefully

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Defiant

She held up a clenched fist and the rest of the family smiled at her small defiant gesture.

• boldly resisting authority or an opposing force

• capability to perform or produce

• expressing compassion or friendly fellow feelings

• having unexpected good luck

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Sympathetic

“Oh, no,” Mother murmured sympathetically. “I know how sad that must make you feel.”

Jonas and Lily both nodded sympathetically as well.

• expressing compassion or friendly fellow feelings

• difficult to analyze or understand

• deeply agitated especially from emotion

• cause to be interested or curious

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Capacity

Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit.

• capability to perform or produce

• very intense

• having unexpected good luck

• excessively aware of your appearance or behavior

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Remorse

No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse.

• a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed

• confusion resulting from failure to understand

• totally perplexed and mixed up

• deeply or seriously thoughtful

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Reluctant

Together they agreed that it probably resulted from her feelings when she had reluctantly dealt punishment to the citizen who had broken the major rules a second time.

• not eager

• a relief from harm or discomfort

• joyously unrestrained

• willingly obedient out of a sense of respect

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Interdependence

Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence.

• a relation between entities that rely on each other

• a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

• a relief from harm or discomfort

• lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Distinguish

Jonas never found the Ceremony of Ten particularly interesting—only time-consuming, as each child’s hair was snipped neatly into its distinguishing cut: females lost their braids at Ten, and males, too, relinquished their long childish hair and took on the more manly short style which exposed their ears.

• be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait

• not habituated to; unfamiliar with

• marked by extreme care in treatment of details

• be compatible, similar, or consistent

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Meticulous

The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made.

• marked by extreme care in treatment of details

• be compatible, similar, or consistent

• greatly annoyed; out of patience

• willingly obedient out of a sense of respect

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Profound

The speech was much the same each year: recollection of the time of childhood and the period of preparation, the coming responsibilities of adult life, the profound importance of Assignment, the seriousness of training to come.

• far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect

• in a serious and dignified manner

• greatly annoyed; out of patience

• characterized by extreme care and great effort

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4