The Giver Vocabulary Synonyms

Upset and can't settle down

• infraction

• distraught

• mischievous

• benign

Done with regret

• solitude

• relinquish

• reprieve

• ruefully

to let go of or release

• relinquish

• indulgently

• exhilarating

• assuage

breaking the rules

• jaunty

• crescendo

• infraction

• ominous

harmless

• benign

• ecstatic

• solitude

• relinquish

uninteresting

• beckoning

• retroactive

• nondescript

• jaunty

done extremely carefully

• indolence

• obsolete

• hueless

• scrupulously

done with fear

• invigorating

• fretful

• infraction

• distraught

sloth-like and lazy

• indolence

• ominous

• ruefully

• mischievous

after the fact

• exhilarating

• benign

• retroactive

• obsolete