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SAT Vocabulary Study The Giver by Lois Lowry

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Note: The words in each section are given in alphabetical order at the top, then in the order in which they appear in the section. As much as possible, words are listed in the form in which they actually appear in the novel. If a definition was not available for that form, the closest form is defined and the derivative is listed. Other common derivatives are listed as well. Words capitalized in the novel are also capitalized in the quoted text.

List 1 Chapters 1–4

adherence apprehensive awed bewildered chastisement

gravitating nondescript nurturer rarity transgression

1. apprehensive (ap-ri-hen-siv) adj. uneasy or fearful about something that might happen

derivatives: apprehension, apprehensively

Chapter 1 “But there was a little shudder of nervousness when he thought about it, about what might happen. Apprehensive, Jonas decided. That’s what I am.”

2. nurture (nur-cher) v. to care for and protect; to support and encourage derivatives: nurturer Chapter 1 “He and the other Nurturers were responsible for all the physical and emotional needs of every newchild during its earliest years of life.” 3. awed (awd) adj. filled with or expressing an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, and fear, produced by something grand, sublime, or powerful derivatives: awe, awesome Chapter 1 “Lily looked up, her eyes wide. ‘The Ceremony of Twelve,’ she whispered in an awed voice.”

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4. transgression (tranz-gresh-uhn) n. violation of a law or command; sin derivatives: transgressor, transgress Chapter 1 “‘I feel frightened, too, for him,’ she confessed. ‘You know that there’s no third chance. The rules say that if there’s a third transgression, he simply has to be released.’” 5. adherence (ad-heer-uhns) n. steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment derivatives: adherent, adhere Chapter 2 “. . .the fact that his father had broken a rule at all awed him. He glanced at his mother, the one responsible for adherence to the rules, and was relieved that she was smiling.” 6. chastisement (chas-tiz-muhnt) n. discipline, especially by corporal punishment derivatives: chastise, unchastised Chapter 3 “[I]t was . . . considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals. Lily, he decided, would have to learn that soon, or she would be called in for chastisement because of her insensitive chatter.” 7. rarity (rair-i-tee) n. something rare, unusual, or uncommon derivatives: rare, rarest Chapter 3 “Now, seeing the newchild and its expression, he was reminded that the light eyes were not only a rarity but gave the one who had them a certain look— what was it? Depth, he decided. . . .” 8. bewildered (bih-wil-derd) adj. completely puzzled or confused; perplexed derivatives: bewilderment, bewilder, bewildering, bewilderedly Chapter 3 “Jonas thought again about that incident. He was still completely bewildered by it . . . He probably should have brought up his feeling of bewilderment that very evening. . . . But he had not been able to sort out and put words to the source of his confusion, so he had let it pass.”




9. nondescript (non-di-skript) adj. of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind

Chapter 3 “[H]e looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic.” 10. gravitate (grav-i-teyt) v. to have a natural tendency or be strongly attracted (usually followed by to or toward) derivatives: gravitating Chapter 4 “But with guidance, as they developed self-confidence and maturity, they moved on to other jobs, gravitating toward those that would suit their own interests and skills.”




List 2

Chapters 5–8 aptitude capacity collective curb exuberant

invariably meticulously precision relinquish vibrant

1. relinquish (ri-ling-kwish) v. to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.)

derivatives: relinquishment Chapter 6 “Each family member, including Lily, had been required to sign a pledge that they would not become attached to this little temporary guest, and that they would relinquish him without protest or appeal when he was assigned to his own family unit at next year’s Ceremony.”

2. exuberant (ig-zoo-ber-uhnt) adj. effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant

derivatives: exuberance, exuberantly Chapter 6 “The audience applause, which was enthusiastic at each Naming, rose in an exuberant swell when one parental pair, glowing with pride, took a male newchild and heard him named Caleb.”

3. invariably (in-vair-ee-uh-blee) adv. always; without exception

derivatives: invariability, invariable

Chapter 6 “But invariably the grinning Nines, who in technical violation of the rule had been practicing secretly for weeks, would mount and ride off in perfect balance, training wheels never touching the ground.”

4. meticulous (muh-tik-yuh-luhs) adj. taking or showing extreme care about

minute details; precise; thorough derivatives: meticulousness, meticulously

Chapter 6 “Jonas shrugged. It didn’t worry him. How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made.”




5. curb (kurb) v. to control as with a curb; restrain; check Chapter 7 “‘You Elevens have spent all your years till now learning to fit in, to standardize your behavior, to curb any impulse that might set you apart from the group.’”

6. aptitude (ap-ti-tood) n. capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for

something; talent derivatives: aptitudinal

Chapter 7 “She mentioned that there was one who had singular skills at caretaking, another who loved newchildren, one with unusual scientific aptitude, and a fourth for whom physical labor was an obvious pleasure.”

7. precision (pri-sizh-uhn) n. accuracy; exactness

derivatives: precise, precisely

Chapter 7 “But the mistake had been made. And precision of language was one of the most important tasks of small children. Asher had asked for a smack.”

8. vibrant (vahy-bruhnt) adj. (of sounds) characterized by perceptible vibration,

resonant, resounding; (otherwise) exciting, stimulating, lively derivatives: vibrance, vibrantly

Chapter 8 “‘I know,’ she said in her vibrant, gracious voice, ‘that you are all concerned. That you feel I have made a mistake.’ She smiled.”

9. collective (kuh-lek-tiv) adj. of or characteristic of a group of individuals taken together

derivatives: collectively

Chapter 8 “What did that mean? He felt a collective, questioning stir from the audience. They, too, were puzzled.”


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10. capacity (kuh-pas-i-tee) n. power of receiving impressions, knowledge, etc.;

mental ability derivatives: capacious

Chapter 8 “‘Perhaps Jonas will, because the current Receiver has told us that Jonas already has this quality. He calls it the Capacity to See Beyond.’”





admonition assimilated excruciating exhilarating exempted

fleeting irrationally obsolete successor unnerving

1. exempt (ig-zempt) v. free from an obligation or liability to which others are

subject; release derivatives: exemption

Chapter 9 “From this moment you are exempted from rules governing rudeness. You may ask any question of any citizen and you will receive answers.”

2. unnerving (uhn-nurv-ing) adj. depriving of courage, strength, determination, or

confidence; upsetting derivatives: unnerve, unnerved

Chapter 9 “He was so completely, so thoroughly accustomed to courtesy within the community that the thought of asking another citizen an intimate question, of calling someone’s attention to an area of awkwardness, was unnerving.”

3. excruciating (ik-skroo-shee-ey-ting) adj. extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturous

derivatives: excruciatingly Chapter 9 “Almost instantly the excruciating pain in his hand had diminished to the throb which was, now, all he could recall of the experience.”

4. successor (suhk-ses-er) n. a person who follows or replaces another by descent, election, appointment or the like

derivatives: succeed Chapter 10 “‘My job is important and has enormous honor. But that does not mean I am perfect, and when I tried before to train a successor, I failed. Please ask any questions that will help you.’”




5. exhilarate (ig-zil-uh-reyt) v. to enliven, invigorate, stimulate; to make cheerful or

merry derivatives: exhilaration, exhilarating

Chapter 10 “‘It’s like going downhill through deep snow on a sled,’ he said finally. ‘At first it’s exhilarating: the speed; the sharp, clear air; but then the snow accumulates, builds up on the runners, and you slow, you have to push hard to keep going, and—’”

6. obsolete (ob-suh-leet) adj. no longer in general use; fallen into disuse derivatives: obsoleteness Chapter 11 “‘Snow made growing food difficult, limited the agricultural periods. And unpredictable weather made transportation almost impossible at times. It wasn’t a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.’”

7. admonition (ad-muh-nish-uhn) n. counsel, advice, or caution

derivatives: admonish Chapter 12 “Jonas listened. He was very aware of his own admonition not to discuss his training. But it would have been impossible, anyway. There was no way to describe to his friends what he had experienced there in the Annex room.”

8. fleeting (flee-ting) adj. passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transitory derivatives: fleetingly Chapter 12 “It had happened again: the thing that he thought of now as ‘seeing beyond.’ This time it had been Fiona who had undergone that fleeting indescribable change.”




9. irrational (ih-rash-uh-nl) adj. without the faculty of reason; deprived of reason derivatives: irrationally, irrationality Chapter 13 “He found that he was often angry, now; irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on.”

10. assimilate (uh-sim-uh-leyt) v. to take in and incorporate as one’s own; absorb

derivatives: assimilation Chapter 13 “‘It was chaos,’ he said. ‘They really suffered for a while. Finally it subsided as the memories were assimilated. But it certainly made them aware of how much they need a Receiver to contain all that pain. And knowledge.’”




List 4

Chapters 14–19 anguish assuage carnage ecstatic isolation

luminous ominous perceive permeated released

1. anguish (ang-gwish) n. excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain: the anguish of grief derivatives: anguished Chapter 14 “They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely, and he rubbed his throbbing leg. Eventually he slept. Again and again he dreamed of the anguish and isolation on the forsaken hill.”

2. assuage (uh-sweyj) v. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate

derivatives: assuagement, unassuaged Chapter 14 “The daily training continued, and now it always included pain. . . . Each time, in his kindness, The Giver ended the afternoon with a color-filled memory of pleasure. . . . It was not enough to assuage the pain that Jonas was beginning, now, to know.”

3. isolation (ahy-suh-ley-shuhn) n. separation from other persons or things; aloneness; loneliness derivatives: isolation, isolate, isolating Chapter 14 “They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely, and he rubbed his throbbing leg. Eventually he slept. Again and again he dreamed of the anguish and isolation on the forsaken hill.”




4. ominous (om-uh-nuhs) adj. portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening;

inauspicious derivatives: omen, ominously Chapter 14 “‘Back and back and back.’” Jonas repeated the familiar phrase. Sometimes it had seemed humorous to him. Sometimes it had seemed meaningful and important. Now it was ominous. It meant, he knew, that nothing could be changed.” 5. release (ree-leesd) v. free from confinement, bondage, obligation, or pain derivatives: release Chapter 14 “‘I’ll have to select the one to be nurtured, and the one to be released. It’s usually not hard, though. Usually it’s just a matter of birthweight. We release the smaller of the two.’” 6. carnage (kahr-nij) n. the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle;

butchery; massacre Chapter 15 “He lay sprawled, his gray uniform glistening with wet, fresh blood. The colors of the carnage were grotesquely bright: the crimson wetness on the rough and dusty fabric, the ripped shreds of grass, startlingly green, in the boy’s yellow hair.” 7. ecstasy (ek-stuh-see) n. an overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of

sudden, intense feeling; rapturous delight derivatives: ecstatic, ecstatically Chapter 16 “In one ecstatic memory he had ridden a gleaming brown horse across a field that smelled of damp grass, and had dismounted beside a small stream from which both he and the horse drank cold, clear water.”




8. perceive (per-seev) v. to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the

senses; to recognize, discern, envision, or understand derivatives: perception, perceptive, perceivable Chapter 16 “‘What did you perceive?’ The Giver asked. ‘Warmth,’ Jonas replied, ‘and happiness. And—let me think. Family. That it was a celebration of some sort, a holiday. And something else—I can’t quite get the word for it.’” 9. permeate (pur-mee-yet) v. to pass into or through every part of; to be diffused

through; pervade; saturate derivatives: permeation, permeative Chapter 17 “And his new, heightened feelings permeated a greater realm than simply his sleep. Though he knew that his failure to take the pills accounted for some of it, he thought that the feelings came also from the memories.” 10. luminous (loo-muh-nuhs) adj. radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright. derivatives: luminosity, luminously Chapter 18 “And [Rosemary] listened carefully. Her eyes were very luminous, I remember. . . . She was so enthusiastic. So delighted to experience new things.”





augmented diminished efficient emphatically fugitives

lethargy rueful sing-song stealthily vigilant

1. efficient (ih-fish-uhnt) adj. performing or functioning in the best possible manner

with the least waste of time and effort; competent; capable

derivatives: efficiency, efficiently Chapter 20 “‘Fiona is already being trained in the fine art of release,’ The Giver told him. ‘She’s very efficient at her work, your red-haired friend. Feelings are not part of the life she’s learned.’”

2. rueful (roo-fuhl) adj. feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful; doleful

derivatives: rue, ruefully Chapter 20 “The Giver gave a rueful, anguished, empty laugh. ‘Jonas, you and I are the only ones who have feelings. We’ve been sharing them now for almost a year.’”

3. emphatic (em-fat-ik) adj. uttered with emphasis; strongly expressive derivatives: emphasis, emphasize, emphatically Chapter 20 “Jonas shook his head emphatically. ‘No, Giver,’ he said. ‘I want you to keep that, to have with you, when I’m gone.’”

4. stealthy (stel-thee) adj. done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive derivatives: stealth, stealthily Chapter 21 “It was terribly dangerous because some of the work crews were still about, but he moved stealthily and silently, staying in the shadows, making his way past the darkened dwellings and the empty Central Plaza, toward the river.”




5. sing-song (sing-sawng) adj. monotonously jingly in rhythm and pattern of pitch

Chapter 21 “‘It’s bye-bye to you, Gabe, in the morning,’ Father had said, in his sweet, sing-song voice.”

6. fugitive (fyoo-ji-tiv) n. a person who is fleeing from prosecution, intolerable

circumstances, etc.; a runaway Chapter 21 “It would not be safe to travel in daylight. They would be looking for him soon. . . . Gabriel’s head nodded, after a moment, and fell against Jonas’s chest. Together the fugitives slept through the first dangerous day.”

7. augmented (awg-men-tid) adj. made larger; enlarged in size, number, strength,

or extent; increased derivatives: augmentation, augment Chapter 21 “The journey had become automatic; the sleep by days, hidden in underbrush and trees; the finding of water; the careful division of scraps of food, augmented by what he could find in the fields.”

8. vigilant (vij-uh-luhnt) adj. keenly watchful and alert to detect danger; wary derivatives: vigilance, vigilantly Chapter 21 “As he pedaled through the nights, through isolated landscape now, with the communities far behind and no sign of human habitation around him or ahead, he was constantly vigilant, looking for the next nearest hiding place should the sound of engines come.”

9. diminish (dih-min-ish) v. to lessen; decrease Chapter 22 “But the frequency of the planes diminished. They came less often, and flew, when they did come, less slowly, as if the search had become haphazard and no longer hopeful.”




10. lethargy (leth-er-jee) n. the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and

unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy derivatives: lethargic Chapter 23 “But his mind was alert now. Warming himself ever so briefly had shaken away the lethargy and resignation and restored his will to survive. He began to walk faster on feet that he could no longer feel.”




Fill-in-the-Blank Activity

The Giver Using the vocabulary words listed below, fill in the blanks with suitable word choices. Each word or its derivative is used once. The answers may or may not be used in the same plot context as in the original quotations, but they do correspond to the characters and events in the novel.


adherence apprehensive awed bewildered chastisement

gravitate nondescript nurturer rarity transgression

1. When the unidentified jet plane flies over the community, the residents feel frightened

and ______________ because they are unsure what to say or do.

2. Jonas’s father’s role as a(n) ______________ defies gender stereotypes. It also allows him the possibility of bringing home a newchild who needs some extra attention.

3. Jonas’s parents try to help ease his ______________ about the upcoming Ceremony of

Twelve by sharing their own childhood experiences.

4. It is clear that this ceremony is held in ______________ by the entire community and carries great importance.

5. Although Jonas’s family seeks to ______________ to the community’s rules, they still

allow themselves to call baby Gabriel by his name before it becomes official.

6. Unlike his father, Jonas has not ______________ toward any particular job in the community. Instead, he has volunteered in a variety of locations.

7. Jonas realizes that both his and little Gabriel’s eyes are a(n) ____________ in the

community. The author may be hinting that in their uniqueness, the two boys share something in common.

8. Jonas commits a minor ______________ when he brings home an apple to study, and he must apologize for his actions the following day.

9. The apple, of unremarkable size and ______________ shade, seems to Jonas to change

briefly in appearance while he and Asher toss it back and forth in the air.




10. Jonas is careful to report to his volunteer duty at the House of the Old; not doing so would violate the community’s expectations, resulting in ______________.






List 2

Chapters 5–8

aptitude capacity collective curb exuberant

invariably meticulously precision relinquish vibrant

1. Jonas’s family participates in several ______________ family rituals, the telling of feelings each evening and the telling of dreams each morning.

2. Jonas must take a pill after reporting his unusual dream, ______________ his inner Stirrings in exchange for calm and stability.

3. Lily finds it difficult to ______________ her excitement as her mother ties her hair

ribbons for the upcoming Ceremony.

4. ______________ in the community, if someone dies or is released, a newchild is given that person’s name. Perhaps this regular practice comforts their loved ones.

5. Jonas trusts that the Committee of Elders have assigned his role with the same

______________ care they use for the assignments of spouses and children.

6. As the Ceremony of Twelve begins, the Chief Elder highlights some of the unique ______________ of the Elevens, including scientific and caretaking abilities.

7. Asher suffered repeated discipline as a child in an effort to teach him to use ______________ language by a certain age.

8. The Chief Elder’s voice is described as ______________, but ironically, the members of

Jonas’s community have never seen bright, vivid colors.

9. Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memory because he possesses the qualities of intelligence, integrity, courage, and a special ______________ to “see beyond.”

10. Proud and excited about Jonas’s honor, the crowd ______________ chants his name.







admonition assimilated excruciating exempted exhilarating

fleeting irrationally obsolete successor unnerving

1. As Jonas reads through the instructions for his new assignment, he learns that he is

prohibited from some practices, such as dream-telling and medication, yet ______________ from others, such as rude personal questions and lying.

2. Accustomed to constant politeness and comfort, Jonas finds these new special permissions ____________.

3. Jonas learns that, since he will ______________ The Giver, taking over his role in the community, his new title is Receiver of Memory.

4. Because books have become ______________ to the community, Jonas is not prepared for the rows of volumes he sees in The Giver’s living quarters.

5. To help Jonas understand his new role as Receiver, The Giver selects a positive, even ______________, experience of riding a sled as his first memory.

6. When Jonas begins to recognize colors, he experiences quick, ______________ glimpses of red and green; then things return to their usual flat, nondescript hues.

7. As Jonas gains knowledge, he becomes more separated from his friends and angry about this separation. Since he can’t explain his anger, he believes it is ______________.

8. Although the instructions from Elders ______________ Jonas not to discuss his training with anyone, he can’t resist trying to pass on the joy of colors to Asher or the powerful majesty of a living elephant to Lily.




9. In a discussion with the Giver, Jonas learns that memories not contained by a Receiver return to the community, who must experience and eventually ______________ these memories.

10. As Jonas and The Giver become closer, Jonas asks if he can receive more negative memories to help relieve some of The Giver’s heavy, sometimes ______________ pain.




Fill-in-the-Blank Activity The Giver

Using the vocabulary words from the list below, fill in the blanks with suitable word choices. Each word or its derivative is used once. The answers may or may not be used in the same plot context as in the original quotations, but they do correspond to the characters and events in the novel.

List 4

Chapters 14–19 assuage anguished carnage ecstatic permeated

isolation luminous ominous perceived released

1. When Jonas experiences his first taste of intense physical discomfort through the second

sled ride, he is not allowed to take any medication to ______________ his pain.

2. As Jonas continues to experience painful memories such as extreme hunger, he questions why he and The Giver must endure the ____________ pain of these memories all by themselves; he wishes that, instead, everyone could share the burden together.

3. When Jonas accidentally ____________ a calming sailboat memory to restless Gabriel

one night, he learns that the little boy is able to receive memories just as he can.

4. When Jonas enters a memory of warfare, he is overwhelmed by the bloody ____________ of men’s and horses’s broken bodies, the cries and the cannons, and the young soldier’s blank stare of death.

5. To help ease Jonas’s pain after the war memory, The Giver transmits several wonderful

memories, including a(n) ____________ horseback ride through a field to a clear stream.

6. As Jonas experiences The Giver’s favorite memory of a winter holiday scene, he ____________ warmth, family, and a concept he learns afterward is called “love.”

7. Once Jonas stops taking his morning pill, and, as he sees more of the world through his

memories, his view of the world becomes more ____________, full of light and color.

8. Rosemary, the girl who preceded him as Receiver of Memory, was so disturbed by the ____________ of separation, hunger, poverty, and terror that she requested release.




9. Jonas also learns that when Rosemary was released, the memories that she had received ____________ the community’s minds so that they were forced to think about them.

10. It isn’t until Jonas watches the video of the release of the smaller twin that he realizes that the positive word “release” is a(n) ____________ term, a euphemism for “put to death.”




Fill-in-the-Blank Activity The Giver

Using the vocabulary words listed below, fill in the blanks with suitable word choices. Each word or its derivative is used once. The answers may or may not be used in the same plot context as in the original quotations, but they do correspond to the characters and events in the novel.

List 5

Chapters 20–23 augmented diminished efficient emphatically fugitives

lethargy rueful sing-song stealthily vigilant

1. Jonas’s reaction to the release of the twin is probably ____________ by the fact that the person administering the injection is his father, whom he has always viewed as kind and good.

2. Jonas is probably saddened to learn that lovely, kind Fiona, one of his closest friends, is already learning to release the Old in a gentle but____________ manner.

3. Jonas’s angry, bitter feelings begin to ____________ as he and The Giver develop a plan

to help force the community to share the burden of painful memories once again.

4. The plan for Jonas’s escape depends on careful timing and ____________ in order to

properly succeed.

5. The Giver is ____________ that he must remain with the community to help counsel the members through the pain and confusion of the returning memories.

6. Ironically, Jonas’s father speaks to Gabriel in a playful, ____________ voice as he describes his planned release for the following morning.

7. Jonas quickly decides to change the plan he made with The Giver that would have made it seem as though he had fallen into the river. Instead, he becomes a _____________, which means that the community will be actively searching for him.

8. Jonas and Gabriel survive by sleeping in the day, traveling at night, and watching

____________ for airplanes.




9. Jonas ____________ realizes that starvation, something he was told he would never experience, is a possibility now that he has left the community’s food supplies behind.

10. As he reaches the end of his journey, Jonas uses scraps of memories to fight against

____________ and carry Gabriel to the top of the hill.




Multiple Choice Exam The Giver

Answers may be the vocabulary words from your list or any of the derivations. 1. discipline

a. scrutiny b. declaration c. chastisement d. collusion e. transgression

2. of no definite type or kind a. nondescript b. collective c. vibrant d. exempt e. obsolete

3. violation of a law or command a. adherence b. chastisement c. rarity d. stealth e. transgression

4. uneasy or fearful a. lethargic b. fleeting c. callous d. apprehensive e. malevolent

5. to be naturally drawn a. perceive b. gravitate c. nurture d. isolate e. exude

6. done as a group a. rueful b. collective c. commendable d. pliable e. bewildered

7. to restrain

a. nurture b. assimilate c. permeate d. calibrate e. curb

8. excitedly enthusiastic

a. exhilarating b. excruciating c. fleeting d. luminous e. exuberant

9. precisely; thoroughly

a. agonizingly b. meticulously c. excruciatingly d. succinctly e. tenuously

10. to surrender, as in a possession or right

a. agitate b. commemorate c. gravitate d. illuminate e. relinquish




11. counsel, advice, or caution

a. premonition b. augmentation c. bewilderment d. admonition e. uncanny

12. taken in as one's own; absorbed

a. assuaged b. succeeded c. assimilated d. released e. obfuscated

13. freed from an obligation

a. exempted b. assimilated c. admonished d. mutated e. lavished

14. a person who replaces another

a. fugitive b. carnage c. idol d. linchpin d. successor

15. depriving of courage, strength, or

confidence a. vigilant b. unnerving c. rueful d. isolating e. letharging

16. relieve; ease; mitigate

a. assuage b. comply c. anguish d. curb e. mediate

17. rapturous; blissful a. anguished b. ominous c. permeated d. ecstatic e. mercurial

18. radiating or reflecting light

a. luminous b. manifold c. comatose d. efficient e. sing-song

19. foreboding; threatening

a. stealthy b. nondescript c. rueful d. ominous e. irrational

20. diffused through; saturated

a. permeated b. perceived c. augmented d. deceived e. awed

21. made larger; increased

a. defunct b. augmented c. devoted d. adhered e. awed

22. spoken with emphasis; expressive

a. efficient b. vigilant c. emphatic d. ecstatic e. collective




23. drowsiness; lack of energy

a. obsolescence b. capacity c. adherence d. irrationality e. lethargy

24. furtively; secretly

a. judiciously b. invariably c. stealthily d. haplessly e. grotesquely

25. awake and alert; watchful

a. militant b. capacious c. meticulous d. vigilant e. apprehensive




The Giver Vocabulary List

1. adherence Chapter 2 2. admonition Chapter 12 3. anguish Chapter 14 4. apprehensively Chapter 1 5. aptitude Chapter 2 6. assimilated Chapter 18 7. assuage Chapter 14 8. augmented Chapter 21 9. awed Chapter 1 10. bewildered Chapter 3 11. capacity Chapter 8 12. carnage Chapter 15 13. chastisement Chapter 3 14. collective Chapter 8 15. curb Chapter 7 16. diminished Chapter 21 17. ecstatic Chapter 16 18. efficient Chapter 20 19. emphatically Chapter 20 20. excruciating Chapter 9 21. exempted Chapter 9 22. exhilarating Chapter 10 23. exuberant Chapter 6 24. fleeting Chapter 12 25. fugitives Chapter 21 26. gravitating Chapter 4

27. invariably Chapter 6 28. irrationally Chapter 13 29. isolation Chapter 14 30. lethargy Chapter 23 31. luminous Chapter 18 32. meticulous Chapter 6 33. nondescript Chapter 3 34. nurturer Chapter 1 35. obsolete Chapter 11 36. ominous Chapter 14 37. perceive Chapter 16 38. permeated Chapter 17 39. precision Chapter 7 40. rarity Chapter 3 41. release Chapter 14 42. relinquish Chapter 6 43. rueful Chapter 20 44. sing-song Chapter 21 45. stealthily Chapter 21 46. successor Chapter 10 47. transgression Chapter 1 48. unnerving Chapter 9 49. vibrant Chapter 8 50. vigilant Chapter 21




Writing Activities

Values in The Giver Businessman Roy Disney (nephew of Walt Disney) once stated, “It’s not hard to

make decisions when you know what your values are.” In The Giver, author Lois Lowry shows us how a society’s values of control, comfort, and equality can supply benefits but can also place a heavy burden on the values of freedom, life, and love.

In a well-organized essay, using specific evidence from the novel, analyze the benefits and costs of one of the community’s values. Then explain how Jonas’s decision to leave the community with Gabriel honors a new value the community has forgotten. Include at least five vocabulary words in your essay.

The Giver Chapter 16

In Chapter 16 of The Giver, Jonas discovers through The Giver’s shared memories many positive aspects of life before Sameness: birthday parties, interactions with animals, and camping. Each of these experiences not only offers pleasure, but also teaches Jonas the benefits of a different way of life. Witnessing a birthday party teaches Jonas about the importance of individuals; sharing a drink of water with a horse teaches him about the bonds between animal and human.

The most powerful memory The Giver shares with Jonas is a family holiday celebration. Read the passage below. Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze how the diction, sensory imagery, and interactions between the people in the scene all contribute to the positive mood.

“He was in a room filled with people, and it was warm, with firelight glowing on

a hearth. He could see through a window that outside it was night, and snowing. There were colored lights: red and green and yellow, twinkling from a tree which was, oddly, inside the room. On a table, lighted candles stood in a polished golden holder and cast a soft, flickering glow. He could smell things cooking, and he heard soft laughter. A golden-haired dog lay sleeping on the floor.

On the floor there were packages wrapped in brightly colored paper and ties with gleaming ribbons. As Jonas watched, a small child began to pick up the packages and pass them around the room: to other children, to adults who were obviously parents, and to an older, quiet couple, man and woman, who sat smiling together on a couch.

While Jonas watched, the people began one by one to untie the ribbons on the packages, to unwrap the bright papers, open the boxes and reveal toys and clothing and books. There were cries of delight. They hugged one another.

The small child went and sat on the lap of the old woman, and she rocked him and rubbed her cheek against his.”


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