This packet is intended to be used throughout the entirety of The Giver. It features 55 vocabulary words from the novel.
The words are broken into chunks of five, and each one has the sentence or quote from the book, as well as space for students to write down the definition.
The second half of the packet is an answer key, with all of the definitions printed in red.
(you may use the definitions provided, make up your own, or have students look them up in a dictionary)
Here are the 55 words featured in the packet:
ch. 1-2 inconveniencing, tunic, apprehensive, aptitude, recreation
ch. 3-4 chastise, incident, mystified, luxury, serene
ch. 5-6 ritual, treatment, designated, reprieve, meticulously
ch. 7-8 recollection, disposition, astonishment, unease, immense
ch. 9-10 relish, exempt, prohibited, successor, transmit
ch. 11-12 obsolete, glee, fretful, phenomenon, glimpse
ch. 13-14 irrationally, chaos, lingered, murky, ominous
ch. 15-16 carnage, perceive, solitude, wisp, optimistic
ch. 17-18 permeated, enthusiastic, imploringly, devastated, lighthearted
ch. 19-20 numbly, mimicked, efficient, burden, violation
ch. 21-23 stealthily, isolated, fugitive, diminished, momentary