The Giver Chapters 13 - 23 Vocabulary

Match the following

• vigilant

• very heavy; like lead

• impeded

• made greater or more numerous

• augmented

• slowed the progress of; interfered

• leaden

• watchful and alert

• tantalizing

• teasing by showing something desirable but out of reach

Match the following

• irrationally

• an integral part of something

• sinuous

• without reason or understanding

• embedded

• graceful and agile; full of smooth bends and curves

• assimilated

• intense pain

• agony

• absorbed; understood

Match the following

• languid

• to get or obtain possession

• solace

• splashing or turning violently

• churning

• without energy; slow and slugish

• acquire

• feeling, showing or causing regret or pity

• rueful

• relief from emotional distress or grief

Match the following

• afterthought

• in a state of great hardship; miserable

• wretched

• gave authority or power to

• empowered

• an idea occurring later

• inflict

• to cause or impose; to deal or mete out

• excruciating

• extremely painful

Match the following

• injustice

• walk steadily and with great effort

• glum

• unfair treatment

• expertise

• dreary; gloomy

• trudged

• special skill or knowledge

• dejected

• very unhappy; dispirited; disappointed

Match the following

• permeated

• spread throughout; penetrated

• anguish

• feeling great pleasure or delight

• wisp

• mental pain; distress or anxiety

• ecstatic

• fragment; trace

Match the following

• ominous

• foreboding sense of evil

• assuage

• with a calm nature and appearance

• placidly

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