The Giver Chapters 1-4 Vocabulary

interested or curious

• envy

• intrigued

• mystified

• humiliation

bad-tempered, moody, grumpy

• chortled

• nondescript

• apprehensive

• petulantly

having been deserted; forsaken

• abandoned

• palpable

• envy

• ritual

a feeling so intense it almost seems like you can touch it

• intrigued

• chastise

• palpable

• humiliation

deeply upset

• mystified

• chortled

• elder

• distraught

uneasy or fearful about something that may happen

• apprehensive

• adherence

• transgression

• chortled

an act that goes against a law or rule

• palpable

• transgression

• ritual

• droning

a ceremony consisting of a series of prescribed actions

• transgression

• nurturer

• ritual

• chastise

someone that supports, encourages, and takes care of

• elder

• abandon

• droning

• nurturer

attachment or commitment to a person, cause, or belief

• obediently

• adherence

• envy

• petulantly