The Giver Chapters 13 - 23 Vocabulary

Match the following

• augmented

• made greater or more numerous

• impeded

• very heavy; like lead

• tantalizing

• watchful and alert

• leaden

• slowed the progress of; interfered

• vigilant

• teasing by showing something desirable but out of reach

Match the following

• sinuous

• without reason or understanding

• agony

• graceful and agile; full of smooth bends and curves

• irrationally

• intense pain

• embedded

• an integral part of something

• assimilated

• absorbed; understood

Match the following

• acquire

• feeling, showing or causing regret or pity

• churning

• relief from emotional distress or grief

• rueful

• to get or obtain possession

• languid

• splashing or turning violently

• solace

• without energy; slow and slugish

Match the following

• afterthought

• gave authority or power to

• empowered

• extremely painful

• inflict

• to cause or impose; to deal or mete out

• excruciating

• an idea occurring later

• wretched

• in a state of great hardship; miserable

Match the following

• expertise

• special skill or knowledge

• injustice

• walk steadily and with great effort

• dejected

• very unhappy; dispirited; disappointed

• glum

• unfair treatment

• trudged

• dreary; gloomy

Match the following

• wisp

• fragment; trace

• anguish

• spread throughout; penetrated

• permeated

• mental pain; distress or anxiety

• ecstatic

• feeling great pleasure or delight

Match the following

• placidly

• foreboding sense of evil

• ominous

• to less the intensity of pain or discomfort; to calm

• assuage

• with a calm nature and appearance