The Giver Vocabulary Chapters 9-18 Flashcards

requisition

official way to get something

excruciating

intensely painful

reeled

loose balance

exhilerating

make someone feel happy

deftly

doing something skillfully/gently

conveyance

to deliver things from place to place

admonition

being told not to do something/warning

mutilated

to cause severe damage to the body

sinuous

having many twists and turns

electrode

one of the two points through which electricity flows in or out of
the battery

writhing

to twist your body from side to side

assuage

to make less painful

ominous

suggesting something bad will happen

pacidly

not easily upset or excited

contorted

to twist in an unusual way

carnage

the killing of many people

immobilized

to keep someone or something from moving

ecstatic

very happy or excited

obsolete

becoming extinct

permeated

to pass or spread through

expertise

special skill or knowledge

luminous

producing light

imploringly

to make an emotional or serious request