The Giver - Chapters 7-12 Vocabulary

respect and admiration

• prestige

• retroactive

• avert

• indolence

turn away

• prestige

• benign

• retroactive

• avert

avoidance of activity; laziness

• spontaneously

• indolence

• benign

• prestige

gentle/harmless

• indolence

• benign

• avert

• retroactive

prestige

• A type of currency
• A brand of luxury cars
• Social status based on achievements
• A type of food

in full agreement

• spontaneously

• benign

• unanimous

• retroactive

immediately, with impulse

• spontaneously

• avert

• prestige

• unanimous

taking effect from date in the past

• avert

• indolence

• retroactive

• prestige

retroactive

• A law that makes illegal an act that was legal when committed
• A type of video game
• A type of clothing style
• A type of music genre

indolence

• A state of laziness
• A state of concentration

• A state of chaos

• A mathematical term