The Giver Chapters 17 & 18 Vocabulary

1) Excitement permeated the classrooms as the students waited to find out who had won the trip to Florida.

• removed

• approached

• infused

• created

Zoe and Sasha were exempted from the community service requirement for school due to all of the volunteer hours they'd already performed on their own time.

• required

• excused

• allowed

• concluded

While looking out of the classroom window, Eva and Blaze saw a glimpse of a coyote running across the parking lot.

• peek

• notion

• illusion

• mirage

After the solitude of being stuck inside their homes for days, due to a snowstorm, Santino and Vivian were excited to go back to school.

• isolation

• lonilness

• seclusion

• All of these

When Lex and Lilah realized they broke their teacher's favorite desk organizer, they ruefully apologized for their mistake.

• sarcastically

• ironically

• remorsefully

• unintentionally

The disgraced leader was banished from his country and lived out a wretched existence for his remaining days.

• notorious

• uneventful

• welcome

• miserable

There was so much pressure during the final seconds of the game that the player faltered while trying to make the scoring shot, causing his team to lose the game.

• volleyed

• stumbled

• foiled

• continued

Ella and Hannah looked imploringly at their teacher, hopeful she would change her mind, when they were told that a surprise quiz would be given at the end of class.

• angrily

• emotionally

• pleadingly

• tiredly