The Giver Vocab Part One Review

Match the following

• gentle and kindly

• Distraught

• in a proper, neat, precise

• Jeer

• childishly sulky or bad-tempered.

• Primly

• make rude and mocking remarks, typically

• Benign

• deeply upset and agitated.

• Petulantly

Match the following

• a person's inherent qualities of mind an

• Reprieve

• anxious or fearful that something bad or

• Apprehensive

• the act of scolding or punishing someone

• Palpable

• cancel or postpone the punishment of

• Chastise

• a feeling so intense as to seem almost t

• Disposition

The tension was....​ (a)  

• palpable
• invisible
• nonexistent

I feel​ (a)   ...about the test. ​

• apprehensive
• confident
• excited
• chastise
• reprieve

She has a very friendly...​ (a)  

• disposition
• jeer
• reprieve

My sister is very...​ (a)   and immature.

• petulant
• happy
• friendly
• primly

The boys...​ (a)   at John when he struck out. ​

• jeered
• cheered
• chastise

He was very​ (a)   ...when he found out the Eagles lost the game.​

• distraught
• apprehensive
• benign