Giver Vocabulary

Chapter 1-2: Adherence – support (for religion or politics). Aptitude – inherent ability Enhance – increase Palpable – capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind Wheedle – influence, urge, caressing or sweet talking

Chapter 3-5 Chastisement – verbal punishment Petulantly – to say; testily, irritably or pettishly Tabulated – calculated Remorse – a feeling of deep regret Bewildered – baffled, confounded, confused or lost

Chapter 6-8 Benign – pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence Exuberant – ecstatic, excited and happy Apprehensive – anxious but fearing Meticulously – carefully Relinquish – give away, release, renounce

Chapter 9-11 Exempted – acquitted Prohibition – ban Integral – essential Exhilarating – stimulating Diminishes – lessens

Chapter 12-13 Admonition – cautionary advice about something imminent Phenomenon – any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning Assimilated –absorbed Sceptically – Questioning, mocking some thing/some one Vibrancy – an attribute, a property