The Giver Vocabulary - Chapters 12-17

Significant means...

• Not correct.

• Sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy.

• Extend from side to side.

• Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.

Dumbfounded means...

• Twisted or bent out of the normal shape.

• Openly or formally asserted or announced.

• Greatly astonished or amazed.

• The science or practice of farming.

Agricultural means...

• Reflecting light, typically because it is very clean or polished.

• Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.

• Making twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body.

• The science or practice of farming.

Inaccurate means...

• Not correct.

• Sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy.

• The state of being full of energy and life, striking brightness of color, strength and resonance of sound.

• Reflecting light, typically because it is very clean or polished.

Vibrance means...

• Openly or formally asserted or announced.

• Greatly astonished or amazed.

• The science or practice of farming.

• The state of being full of energy and life, striking brightness of color, strength and resonance of sound.

Spanned means...

• Extend from side to side.

• Greatly astonished or amazed.

• Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.

• Twisted or bent out of the normal shape.

Writhing means...

• Extend from side to side.

• Twisted or bent out of the normal shape.

• Making twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body.

• Openly or formally asserted or announced.

Contorted means...

• Not correct.

• Twisted or bent out of the normal shape.

• Sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy.

• Extend from side to side.

Ecstatic

• Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.

• Reflecting light, typically because it is very clean or polished.

• Openly or formally asserted or announced.

• Greatly astonished or amazed.

Gleaming means...

• Openly or formally asserted or announced.

• Sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy.

• The science or practice of farming.

• Reflecting light, typically because it is very clean or polished.