Giver Vocab Ch 7-9 (11-25)

Match the following

• personality

• Escalating

• errors or mistakes due to forgetfulness

• Ruefully

• peacefully, calmly

• Disposition

• growing or intensifying

• Serenely

• regretfully

• Lapses

Match the following

• harmless

• Anguish

• harsh, severe

• Benign

• to remain for a time or linger

• Rigorous

• extreme pain, distress, or anxiety

• Dwell

• laziness

• Indolence

Match the following

• unable to be described

• Prohibition

• a ban or prevention

• Indescribable

• huge, enormous

• Empowered

• great size or extent

• Immense

• the power to make decisions for oneself

• Magnitude

“Asher nodded ​ (a)   and the audience laughed aloud” (69)

• ruefully
• Serenely
• Benign
• Indescribable
• Rigorous
• Indolence

“He couldn’t seem to stop, though for each lapse the discipline wand came again, ​ (a)   to a series of painful lashes that left marks on Asher’s legs” (70).

• Serenely
• Benign
• Indescribable
• Rigorous
• Indolence
• escalating

“When he began talking again, it was with great precision.  And now his ​ (a)   are very few” (70).

• Serenely
• Benign
• Indescribable
• Rigorous
• Indolence
• lapses

“Asher’s cheerful ​ (a)   was well-known throughout the community” (70).

• Anguish
• Benign
• Magnitude
• Prohibition
• Indolence
• disposition

“She had been sitting quietly, ​ (a)   throughout the ceremony” (71).

• Anguish
• Benign
• Magnitude
• Prohibition
• Indolence
• serenely

“The community, relieved from its discomfort very slightly by her ​ (a)   statement, 

seemed to breathe more easily” (75).

• Anguish
• Magnitude
• Prohibition
• Indolence
• benign

“I apologize to you in particular. I caused you ​ (a)   ” (75).

• Benign
• Magnitude
• Prohibition
• Indolence
• anguish
• Ruefully