giver vocab Flashcards
The sense of his own
community silent, waiting, had made his stomach _____.
churn
Now, thinking about the feeling of fear as he pedaled
home along the river path, he remembered that moment of
_______, stomach-sinking terror when the aircraft had
streaked above.
palpable
I guess I just got ______, watching them.
“I apologize to my classmates,” Asher concluded. He
smoothed his rumpled tunic and sat down.
distraught
But the committee would never bother The Receiver
with a question about bicycles; they would simply _____ and
argue about it themselves for years, until the citizens forgot
that it had ever gone to them for study.
fret
He glanced at his
mother, the one responsible for _________ to the rules, and
was relieved that she was smiling.
adherence
He waited for his father to _______
Lily.
chastise
They almost
________ did their hours on Recreation Duty first, helping with the younger ones in a place
where they still felt comfortable.
invariably
Depth, he decided; as if one
were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might ____ which hadn’t been dis-
covered yet.
lurk
It was rumored that he
was as skilled now as the Rehabilitation Directors
themselves, and that he had even developed some ma-
chines and methods to ______ rehabilitation.
hasten
Jonas stowed his bicycle beside Mother’s and made his way
through the ______ to find his group.
throng
The
bicycle, at Nine, would be the powerful _______ of moving
gradually out into the community, away from the pro-
tective family unit.
emblem
“______,” Jonas corrected him.
Buoyancy
The community was so _______ ordered,
the choices so carefully made.
meticulously
“He’s a sweet little male with a
lovely _______.
disposition
They applauded at the
final Assignment; but the applause was _______, no
longer a crescendo of united enthusiasm.
piecemeal
Earlier that day, dressing in his own dwelling, he had
practiced the kind of _______, self-assured walk that he hoped
he could make to the stage when his turn came.
jaunty
“Sometimes,” she went on, speaking now in a lighter
tone, relaxing the tension in the Auditorium, “we are not
entirely certain about the Assignments, even after the most _______ observations.
painstaking
From this moment you are ________ from rules
governing rudeness.
exempted
But the most _________ difference was the books.
conspicuous
There must
have been hundreds — perhaps thousands — of books, their titles ______ in shiny letters.
embossed
He could
see a bright, whirling _______ of crystals in the air around
him, and he could see them gather on the backs of his hands, like cold fur.
torrent
'’They made __________ of
goods unwieldy. Trucks; buses. Slowed them down. So — ‘’
He waved his hand, as if a gesture had caused hills to
disappear.
conveyance
'’They made conveyance of
goods __________. Trucks; buses. Slowed them down. So — ‘’
He waved his hand, as if a gesture had caused hills to
disappear.
unwieldy
