WORK ON THE GIVER VOC. 3RD SECTION

CREATE A VOCABULARY LIST WITH THESE WORDS AND OTHER 10 THAT YOU CHOOSE
COPY THE WORD, READ THE EXAMPLE SENTENCE AND CHECK IN AN ENGLISH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR THE RIGHT MEANING. THEN CHECK IN AN ENGLISH-SPANISH AND WRITE THE MEANING IN SPANISH. HAND IN FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY  11TH MARCH.

1. jeer
   EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

   Even the children were scolded if they used the term lightly at play, jeering at a teammate who missed a catch or stumbled in a race.
   
2. distraught
   
   
   EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

   I guess I just got distraught, watching them.
3. wheedle
   
   
   EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

   But like all parents—all adults—they didn’t fight and wheedle for their turn.
   
4. sift
   
   
   EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

   He wanted to share them, but he wasn’t eager to begin the process of sifting through his own complicated emotions, even with the help that he knew his parents could give.
   
5. defiant
   EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

   She held up a clenched fist and the rest of the family smiled at her small defiant gesture.
   
6. overwhelming
   
   
   EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

   To see him brought before her a second time caused her overwhelming feelings of frustration and anger. And even guilt, that she hadn’t made a difference in his life.
   
7. soothe
   EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

   Soon she smiled, thanked them, and murmured that she felt soothed.
   
8. apprehensive
   
   
   EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

   “I’m feeling apprehensive,” he confessed, glad that the appropriate descriptive word had finally come to him.

    
9. chastisement
   
   
   EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

   Lily, he decided, would have to learn that soon, or she would be called in for chastisement because of her insensitive chatter.
   
10. self-conscious
    
    
    EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

    He felt self-conscious, realizing that he, too, had that look.
    
11. petulant(ly)
    
    
    EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

    I think I’d like that,” Lily said petulantly.
    
12. bewilderment
    
    
    EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

    He probably should have brought up his feeling of bewilderment that very evening when the family unit had shared their feelings of the day.
    
13. awkward
    
    
    EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

    He knew him, of course, since they had always been groupmates, but they had never talked about the boys' accomplishments because such a conversation would have been awkward for Benjamin.
    
14. mischievous
    
    
    EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

    But to be honest,” she whispered with a mischievous look, “some of the tellings are a little boring.