The Giver Vocabulary : Chapters 8-14

Vibrant

• Full of energy and life

• Quiet and subdued

• Angry and hostile

• Weak and feeble

Meticulously

• Carelessly

• With extreme attention to detail

• Quickly

• With great difficulty

Sinuous

• Graceful and flowing

• Short and stubby

• Rough and jagged

• Straight and rigid

Benign

• Threatening

• Gentle and kind

• Mysterious

• Confusing

Indescribable

• Easy to explain

• Beyond words or description

• Unimportant

• Pleasant

Piecemeal

• All at once

• Not at all

• Bit by bit

• Forever

Anguish

• Extreme suffering

• Mild discomfort

• Happiness

• Confusion

Assuage

• To increase

• To ignore

• To relieve or lessen

• To repeat

Relinquished

• Gained

• Kept

• Given up

• Remembered

Placidly

• Angrily

• Calmly

• Quickly

• Sadly