Giver+vocabulary

Giver 3-line vocabulary poems by students

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10th word: "**luminous**" Example sentence from the book: “ Her eyes were very luminous .”  Other example sentences: The luminous  dial on the clock showed five minutes to seven. "**luminous**" definition media type="custom" key="10760746"

9th word: "**anguish**" Example sentence from the book: “He could still hear it when he opened his eyes and lay anguished  on the bed where he received memories.”  Other example sentences: The young man broke the girl's heart when he told her was going to marry her best friend. She was filled with **anguish**. "**anguish**" definition media type="custom" key="10748298"

8th word: "**obsolete**" "**obsolete**" definition media type="custom" key="10726010" "20 Obsolete English words that should make a comeback"
 * Example sentence from the book: “ **<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> It wasn’t a practical thing, so it became <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">obsolete <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> when we went to Sameness.”
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> Other example sentences **<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Google wants you to skip the YouTube app on the iPhone, which is controlled by Apple, and go straight to its new YouTube mobile site on the Web, making the iPhone’s YouTube App obsolete. – from The New York Times technology reviews, July 7, 2010.

7th word: "**torrent**" <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Example sentence from the book: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">“He could see a bright, whirling <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">torrent <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> of crystals in the air around him” <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> Other example sentences: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">The houses were swept away in the torrent. "**torrent**" definition media type="custom" key="10655076"

6th word: "(to) **reel**" <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Example sentence from the book: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">“What if they had all been instructed: //You may lie?// His mind <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">reeled <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">.” <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> Other example sentences: <span class="illustration" style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">My head is still <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">reeling <span class="illustration" style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> from the shock of hearing it. "reel(ed)" media type="custom" key="10639524"

5th word: "**integrity**" <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Example sentence from the book: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">“ ‘ <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Integrity <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">,’ she said next. ‘Jonas has, like all of us, committed minor transgressions.’ She smiled at him. ‘We expect that. We hoped, also, that he would present himself promptly for chastisement, and he has always done so.” <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> Other example sentences: “ <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">For that matter, she found in Billy a certain health and rightness, a certain essential integrity, which she prized more highly than all book learning and bank accounts.” – from //The Valley of the Moon// by Jack London "**integrity**" synonyms: honor, honesty, goodness, purity, honorableness media type="custom" key="10627536"

4th word: "**reprieve**" <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Example sentence from the book: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">“ He had been given an unusual and special <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">reprieve <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> from the committee, and granted an additional year of nurturing before his Naming and Placement.” <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> Other example sentences: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">He enjoyed the reprieve from responsibility during his weeklong vacation. "**reprieve**" definition media type="custom" key="10583324"

3rd word: "**remorse**" <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Example sentence from the book: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">“The public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">remorse <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">.” <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> Other example sentences: “ <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">I do not feel remorse, because that woman, I profoundly hold, deserved her punishment.” – from //Twenty Years After// by Alexandre Dumas "**remorse**" definition media type="custom" key="10554606"

2nd word: "**awed**" <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Example sentence from the book: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">“Lilly looked up, her eyes wide. “The ceremony of Twelve,” she whispered in an awed voice.” <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> Other example sentences: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">//We felt awe when contemplating the works of Bach. / The observers were in awe of the destructive power of the new weapon.// "**awed**" - definition part 1 media type="custom" key="10534758" "**awed**" - definition part 2 media type="custom" key="10534764"

1st word: "**palpable**" <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Example sentence from the book: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">“Now, thinking about the feeling of fear as he pedaled home along the river path, he remembered that moment of <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">palpable <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">stomach-sinking terror when the aircraft had streaked above.” <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Other example sentences: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">"The air was warm and close--palpable as cotton.” "**palpable**" - definition part 1 media type="custom" key="10507120" -- "**palpable**" - definition part 2

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"**distraught**" <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Example sentence from the book: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">“ ‘ <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Distraught’ <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> is too strong an adjective to describe salmon-viewing.” <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Other example sentences: <span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">When the girl went missing, her <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">distraught <span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> parents could not be comforted or consoled. "**distraught**" - definition media type="custom" key="10530776"

"**solemn**" <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Example sentence from the book: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">“ ‘We failed in our last selection,’ the Chief Elder said <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">solemnly <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">.” <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Other example sentences: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">The judge was solemn as she pronounced the sentence. "**solemn**" - part 1 media type="custom" key="10554826" "**solemn**" - part 2 media type="custom" key="10554832"

"**tentative**" <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Example sentence from the book: <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">“ <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Tentatively <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;"> he opened his eyes—not his snow-hill-sled eyes, for they had been open throughout the strange ride.” <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">Other example sentences: “ <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Narrow&#39;; font-size: 10pt;">He lifted and advanced his left foot, not tentatively and hesitantly, but quickly and firmly, bringing it to rest on the lion's neck.” – from //Michael, Brother of Jerry// by Jack London "**tentative**(ly)" definition media type="custom" key="10694648"