The giver Flashcards
to learn the senteces of the vocad words
He had been frightened then. The sense of his own community
silent, waiting, had made his stomach _____. He had trembled.
churn
Now, thinking about the feeling of fear as he pedaled home along
the river path, he remembered that moment of ___________, stomachsinking terror when the aircraft had streaked above.
palpable
“And I thank you, because once again you have provided an
opportunity for a lesson in language. ________ is too strong an
adjective to describe salmon-viewing.”
distraught
. He glanced at his mother, the one responsible for
_____________ to the rules, and was relieved that she was smiling.
adherence
But the committee would never
bother The Receiver with a question about bicycles; they would
simply ___ and argue about it themselves for years,
Fret
Jonas!” Jonas glared at her.
He didn’t like it that she had mentioned his eyes. He waited for his
father to ______ Lily.
chastise
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 discovered yet.
lurk
. They almost ________ did their
hours on Recreation Duty first,
invariably
t was rumored that he was as skilled now as the
Rehabilitation Directors themselves, and that he had even developed
some machines and methods to_______rehabilitation.
hasten
The bicycle, at Nine, would be the
powerful _______ of moving gradually out into the community, away
from the protective family unit.
emblem
Jonas stowed his bicycle
beside Mother’s and made his way through the_______to find his
group.
throng
“________” Jonas corrected him.
Buoyancy,
How could someone not fit in?
The community was so ____________ordered, the choices so
carefully made.
meticulously
. Asher’s cheerful
_________ was well-known throughout the community.
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
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the stage when his turn came.
jaunty
“we are not entirely certain about the
Assignments, even after the most _________ observations.
Sometimes we worry that the one assigned might not develop,
through training, every attribute necessary
painstaking
From this moment you are __________from rules governing
rudeness. You may ask any question of any citizen and you will
receive answers.
exempted
But the most __________ difference was the books. In his own
dwelling, there were the necessary reference volumes that each
household contained: a dictionary
conspicuous,
There must have been hundreds–
perhaps thousands–of books, their titles _________ in shiny letters.
embossed
