The Giver Vocabulary

can be touched or felt; tangible

• palpable

• benign

• rueful

• taut

creased or wrinkled

• distraught

• taut

• meager

• rumpled

very confused or troubled as by grief or worry; distracted

• rueful

• distraught

• petulantly

• admonition

feeling anxious or fearful about what may happen

• tentatively

• apprehensive

• skeptically

• rueful

widely known; famous

• prestige

• indulgently

• prominent

• exuberant

a breaking of a law; going beyond the limit

• chastisement

• transgression

• relentless

• impeded

a punishment or scolding

• chastisement

• transgression

• permeated

• relinquish

to act with anger or annoyance over little things

• rueful

• petulantly

• admonition

• lethargy

peaceful and calm

• meager

• benign

• serene

• relentless

to chuckle or laugh-snort with glee

• relinguish

• chortled

• permeated

• impeded