"The Giver" Vocabulary Ch. 1-12

to gain or get by coaxing or flattering

• wheedle

• chastise

• palpable

• murky

earlier in time

• retroactive

• cringed

• prior

• tabulated

to punish severely

• escalating

• hoarded

• chastise

• compel

easily sensed; noticeable

• cringed

• palpable

• meticulously

• alcove

hid a supply or stored up something

• wheedle

• exempted

• basking

• hoarded

counted and recorded in an orderly way

• tabulated

• indolence

• compel

• murky

difficult to understand

• wheedle

• murky

• indolence

• vibrant

shrank in fear, cowered

• compel

• chastise

• cringed

• tabulated

being extremely or overly careful in small details

• retroactive

• meticulously

• glee

• basking

intended to apply or take effect at a date in the past

• palpable

• escalating

• meticulously

• retroactive