48 Vocabulary Words for The Giver

Adherence
-N. Faithful Attachment

Admonition
-N. Counsel, advice, or caution

Anguish
-N. Excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain

Apprehensive
-Adj. Uneasy or fearful about something that might happen

Aptitude
-N. Quickness in learning and understanding; intelligence

Assuage
-V. To make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate

Augmented
-Adj. Added to or made greater in amount or number or strength

Buoyancy
-N. The power to float or rise in a fluid

Carnage
-N. The slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre

Chastise
-V. To discipline, esp. by corporal punishment

Chortle
-V. To chuckle gleefully

Dejected
-Adj. Depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited

Distraught
-Adj. Distracted; deeply agitated

Exasperate
-V. To irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely

Excruciating
-Adj. Extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing

Exhilarate
-V. To make cheerful or merry

Exuberant
-Adj. Abounding in vitality; extremely joyful and vigorous

Fretful
-Adj. Nervous and unable to relax

Immobilize
-V. To make immobile or immovable; fix in place

Implore
-V. To beg urgently

Indolence
-N. Habitual laziness; sloth

Indulgent
-Adj. Lenient or permissive

Infraction
-N. Breach; violation; infringement

Interdependence
-Adj. Mutually dependent; depending on each other

Languid
-Adj. Lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow

Lethargy
-N. The quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy

Meticulous
-Adj. Taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough

Mystified
-V. To confuse or puzzle mentally

Nondescript
-Adj. Undistinguished or uninteresting; dull or insipid

Obsolete
-Adj. Out of date

Ominous
-Adj. Menacing; threatening

Palpable
-Adj. Readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc; obvious, evident; capable of being touched or felt; tangible

Peril
-N. Exposure to the risk of harm or loss

Permeate
-V. To pass into or through every part of

Pervade
-V. To become spread throughout all parts of

Prestige
-N. Reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes

Relinquish
-V. To renounce, surrender, or give up

Reprieve
-V. To delay the impending punishment or sentence

Rueful
-Adj. Causing sorrow or pity

Sarcastic
-Adj. Characterized by the use of unpleasant remarks intended to hurt a person's feelings

Scrupulous
-Adj. Having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled

Serene
-Adj. Calm, peaceful, or tranquil

Sinuous
-Adj. Having many curves, bends, or turns; winding

Solace
-N. Comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble

Solitude
-N. The state of being or living alone; seclusion

Syringe
-N. A medical instrument used to inject fluids into the body or draw them from it

Transgression
-N. A violation of a law, command, or a duty

Wretched
-Adj. Miserable; pitiable