The Giver Vocabulary Ch 1 - 4

Uneasy or fearful

• apprehensive

• nurturer

• bewildered

• transgression

"He and the other __________ were responsible for all the physical and emotional needs of every newchild during its earliest years of life."

• chastisement

• gravitating

• rarity

• nurturers

Filled with or expressing an overwhelming feeling of admiration

• adherence

• awed

• chastisement

• nondescript

"I feel frightened, too, for him,' she confessed. 'You know that there's no third chance. The rules say that if there's a third _________, he simply has to be released."

• rarity

• adherence

• transgression

• bewildered

steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment

• apprehension

• gravitation

• awed

• adherence

"It was...considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals. Lily, he decided, would have to learn that soon, or she would be called in for ________________ because of her insensitive chatter."

• bewildered

• transgression

• chastisement

• adherence

something rare, unusual, or uncommon

• transgression

• rarity

• adherence

• nondescript

"Jonas thought again about that incident. He was still completely _______ by it . . . He probably should have brought up his feeling of bewilderment that very evening . . . But he had not been able to sort out and put words to the source of his confusion, so he had let it pass."

• bewildered

• nondescript

• graviatate

• apprehensive

of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind

• nondescript

• gravitate

• transgression

• chastisement

"But with guidance, as they developed self-confidence and maturity, they moved on to other jobs, ___________, toward those that would suit their ow interest and skills."

• apprehensive

• nondescript

• gravitating

• bewildered