Vocabulary
The Giver
Capitalization
Context Clues
Confused Words
100

This word means "interested and curious"

What is "intrigued"

100

The Receiver of Memory

What is Jonas's job?

100

In May 1937, Amelia Earhart began her second attempt to fly around the World.

world

100

Which word means to do something special to honor and remember.


The Chinese festival of Qingming takes place on the fifteenth day after the spring equinox. On this day, people burn paper "spirit money" and models of houses and cars to commemorate the dead. Their hope is to make their departed relatives more comfortable in the spirit world.

commemorate

100

Fix the commonly confused word.

Your so annoying!

You're

200

This word means "to break a law or rule"

What is "infraction", "transgression", or "infringed"?

200

This is the event where adult jobs are assigned.

What is the Ceremony of Twelve?

200

On january 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion.

January

200

Select the word that means having a huge appetite.


The shrew is a tiny, mouse-like mammal with an elevated metabolic rate. In the space of just one minute, it breathes about eight hundred times, and its heart beats about one thousand times. The shrew is also voracious. Every day, it eats its entire body weight in prey such as insects, worms, and salamanders.

voracious

200

Fix the commonly confused word.

I can't help that its raining so hard right now; you're going to have to walk anyway.

it's

300

This word means a lack of energy or strength

What is "languid" or what is "lethargy"?

300

Most people think this means you're sent Elsewhere but Jonas knows it really means to kill someone.

What is "Release"?

300

According to the Constitution, a Person must be thirty years old to serve as a senator.

person

300

Select the word that means a refusal to buy or use something in order to bring about change.


In the 1960s, Filipino and Latino farmworkers in California went on strike against large grape growers, demanding better working conditions, better pay, and union representation. Union head César Chávez led the workers on a march to the state capital, and people across the country learned about the workers' cause. In response, millions of Americans stopped eating non-union grapes. Eventually, the growers agreed to the workers' demands. The combination of the farmworkers' protests and the grape boycott had proved effective.

boycott

300

Fix the commonly confused word.

My three friend's bicycles were left outside and disappeared after your basketball game.

friends'

400

This word means "to spread or flow throughout"

What is permeate?

400

Sledding, the beach, war, elephant hunting, and Christmas

What are some of the memories Jonas receives?

400

Since its completion in 1970, the Aswan High Sam across the Nile River has provided egyptians with electricity as well as protection from floods and draughts.

Egyptians

400

Select the word that means exposed as false.


Do you believe that toilet bowls flush counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere? You may have heard that the Coriolis effect, caused by the rotation of the earth, makes toilets flush in different directions in toilet bowls above and below the equator. Scientists have debunked this myth, though, explaining that the Coriolis effect controls the direction of water flow only in much larger bodies of water, hundreds of miles in diameter. The direction of your toilet's flush simply depends on how the manufacturer designed it.

debunked

400

Fix the two commonly confused words.

Its better to eat only vegetables then it is to eat only meat

It's & than

500

This word means the opposite of "moist"

What is "parched"?

500

Jonas takes pills to stop this after having a dream about Fiona

What are "The Stirrings"?

500

Martin Luther King, Jr., helped organize a famous bus boycott in Alabama during the Winter of 1955 that paved the way for civil rights victories in the south.

winter

500

Select the word that means caused something to continue.


Humans have been interested in honeybees for thousands of years, perhaps because of the honey that the bees produce. But despite their interest, ancient people failed to understand the bee's life cycle. In fact, ancient Egyptians thought that honeybees were spontaneously generated, arising not from eggs but from the carcass of an ox. This erroneous notion was perpetuated by the presence of drone flies, which resembled honeybees, around the dead bodies of oxen. Once they had microscopes and other modern tools, scientists began to observe bee colonies closely. They now understand more about the interrelationships of the members of the hives, including the queen and drones, and their complex communication systems.

perpetuated

500

Fix the two commonly confused words.

After we go to the mall than, I want to go to the park to.

then & too
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