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Vocabulary Words for The Giver Chapters 5--8 Author : Lois Lowry

Vocabulary Words for The Giver Chapters 5--8 Author : Lois Lowry. Mrs . Grimm English 8 th. DIRECTIONS: In your English journal, copy the vocabulary word, the definition, and the sentence from the novel. Find the additional information for each word and write it in your journal.

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Vocabulary Words for The Giver Chapters 5--8 Author : Lois Lowry

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  1. Vocabulary Words for The Giver Chapters 5--8Author: Lois Lowry Mrs. Grimm English 8th

  2. DIRECTIONS: In your English journal, copy the vocabulary word, the definition, and the sentence from the novel. Find the additional information for each word and write it in your journal. • Part of Speech: • Synonym: • Antonym: • Write your own sentence: • Draw a picture:

  3. infraction • Violation of a law or rule • Jonas said the standard phrase automatically, and tried to pay better attention while his mother told of a dream fragment, a disquieting scene where she had been chastised for a rule infraction she didn’t understand.

  4. interdependence • A relationship between entities that rely on each other • Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence.

  5. emblem • a visible symbol representing an abstract idea • The bicycle, at Nine, would be the powerful emblem of moving gradually out into the community, away from the protective family unit.

  6. reprieve • A relief from harm or discomfort • He had been given an unusual and special reprieve from the committee, and granted an additional year of nurturing before his Naming and Placement.

  7. relinquish • release, as from one's grip • 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.

  8. transgression • the violation of a law or a duty based on moral principle • His transgressions were small ones, always: shoes on the wrong feet, schoolwork misplaced, failure to study adequately for a quiz.

  9. scrupulous • characterized by extreme care and great effort • Like the Matching of Spouses and the Naming and Placement of newchildren, the Assignments were scrupulously thought through by the Committee of Elders

  10. exasperated • greatly annoyed; out of patience • Jonas always chuckled when he heard a parent, exasperated, call sharply to a whining toddler, “That’s enough, Twenty-three

  11. indolence • inactivity resulting from a dislike of work • What we observe as playfulness and patience—the requirements to become Nurturer—could, with maturity, be revealed as simply foolishness and indolence.

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