Giver Part 1 Vocabulary

the learning or developing of a skill, habit, or quality.

• adherence

• apprehensive

• acquisition

• exasperate

attachment or commitment to a person, cause, or belief

• excruciating

• adherence

• congregate

• acquisition

anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen

• insight

• chortle

• apprehensive

• intrigue

the ability or tendency to float in water or air or some other fluid.

• buoyancy

• crescendo

• envy

• adherence

laugh in a breathy, gleeful way; chuckle.

• congregate

• chortle

• distraught

• meticulous

gather into a crowd or mass.

• relish

• acquisition

• exasperate

• congregate

the loudest point reached in a gradually increasing sound.

• crescendo

• chortle

• rigorous

• intrigue

deeply upset and agitated.

• integrity

• distraught

• envy

• rigorous

desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable attribute belonging to (someone else).

• exasperate

• excruciating

• envy

• apprehensive

irritate and frustrate (someone) intensely.

• steel

• exasperate

• congregate

• adherence