Vocabulary • Ch 8 - The Giver • Definitions

What is the definition of 'anguish'?

• Getting louder and louder in music

• To understand something fully or completely

• Someone who takes over after someone else

• Intense sadness or suffering

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

What word means to understand something fully or completely?

• crescendo

• however

• benign

• comprehend

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

What word means to become calmer or less intense?

• despair

• comprehend

• subside

• fleeting

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is the definition of 'dwell'?

• Feeling worried, scared or nervous about something

• Getting louder and louder in music

• Lazy or not wanting to work

• To live or stay in a place

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

What word means used to show contrast or contradiction?

• however

• attribute

• therefore

• fleeting

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.K.2

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.2.2