The Giver Chapters 13 - 23 Vocabulary

Match the following

• leaden

• watchful and alert

• tantalizing

• slowed the progress of; interfered

• impeded

• teasing by showing something desirable but out of reach

• augmented

• very heavy; like lead

• vigilant

• made greater or more numerous

Match the following

• agony

• without reason or understanding

• assimilated

• absorbed; understood

• irrationally

• intense pain

• sinuous

• graceful and agile; full of smooth bends and curves

• embedded

• an integral part of something

Match the following

• churning

• to get or obtain possession

• rueful

• splashing or turning violently

• solace

• feeling, showing or causing regret or pity

• acquire

• without energy; slow and slugish

• languid

• relief from emotional distress or grief

Match the following

• wretched

• to cause or impose; to deal or mete out

• inflict

• extremely painful

• empowered

• an idea occurring later

• excruciating

• in a state of great hardship; miserable

• afterthought

• gave authority or power to

Match the following

• injustice

• dreary; gloomy

• trudged

• unfair treatment

• expertise

• very unhappy; dispirited; disappointed

• dejected

• special skill or knowledge

• glum

• walk steadily and with great effort

Match the following

• permeated

• feeling great pleasure or delight

• anguish

• spread throughout; penetrated

• wisp

• mental pain; distress or anxiety

• ecstatic

• fragment; trace

Match the following

• assuage

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

• placidly

• foreboding sense of evil

• ominous

• with a calm nature and appearance