Vocabulary Review: The Giver

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

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

What does distraught mean?

• deeply annoyed

• deeply upset

• satisfied

• questioning

Choose the word that correctly matches the definition: 
Bad tempered, irritable 

• Bewilder
• Illicit 
• Nuisance 
• Petulant 

interested or curious

• envy

• intrigued

• mystified

• humiliation

to correct or punish

• chastise

• petulantly

• remorse

• conviction

confusion resulting from failure to understand

• mystified

• remorse

• bewilderment

• relinquish

greatly astonished or amazed

• dumbfounded

• sinuous

• throng

• torrent

strongly said with emphasis

• emphatically

• haphazard

• incision

• understatement

The ___________________ man was led to jail.

• condemned

• stealthily

• peril

• vigilant