The Giver Vocabulary
Across
- 1. The power to float or rise in a fluid
- 7. To irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely
- 9. The quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy
- 11. To discipline, esp. by corporal punishment
- 14. To beg urgently
- 15. Counsel, advice, or caution
- 16. Menacing; threatening
- 19. Having many curves, bends, or turns; winding
- 20. To make cheerful or merry
- 24. Distracted; deeply agitated
- 25. To become spread throughout all parts of
- 27. The state of being or living alone; seclusion
- 29. Abounding in vitality; extremely joyful and vigorous
- 30. Undistinguished or uninteresting; dull or insipid
- 34. The slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre
- 35. Habitual laziness; sloth
- 37. Depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited
- 38. A medical instrument used to inject fluids into the body or draw them from it
- 39. Miserable; pitiable
- 40. Breach; violation; infringement
- 43. Reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes
- 44. Calm, peaceful, or tranquil
- 45. Causing sorrow or pity
- 46. Quickness in learning and understanding; intelligence
Down
- 2. Uneasy or fearful about something that might happen
- 3. Readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc; obvious, evident; capable of being touched or felt; tangible
- 4. Characterized by the use of unpleasant remarks intended to hurt a person's feelings
- 5. To renounce, surrender, or give up
- 6. Lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow
- 8. Exposure to the risk of harm or loss
- 10. To chuckle gleefully
- 12. Taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough
- 13. Mutually dependent; depending on each other
- 17. Lenient or permissive
- 18. Added to or made greater in amount or number or strength
- 20. Extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing
- 21. Faithful Attachment
- 22. To make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate
- 23. A violation of a law, command, or a duty
- 26. To confuse or puzzle mentally
- 28. To pass into or through every part of
- 31. Comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble
- 32. To delay the impending punishment or sentence
- 33. Having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled
- 36. To make immobile or immovable; fix in place
- 41. Nervous and unable to relax
- 42. Out of date
- 46. Excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain