The Outsiders Vocabulary Ch. 1-4

I heard a _______ curse and got slugged again, and they were stuffing a handkerchief in my mouth.

• bawl
• muttered
• disgrace
• reckless 

The Socs jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public _____ one day and an asset to society the next.  

• disgrace
• muttered
• reckless
• unfathomable

He liked fights, blondes, and for some _______ reason, school.

• reckless
• incredulous
• unfathomable
• ornery

He has a finely drawn, sensitive face that somehow manages to be _________ and thoughtful at the same time.  

• bawl
• disgrace
• reckless
• quivering

I was smarting and aching and my chest was sore and I was so nervous my hands were shaking and I wanted to start ______, but you just don't say that to Darry.  

• bawling
• unfathomable
• disgrace
• winced

She gave him an _________ look; and then she threw her Coke in his face.  

• incredulous
• roguishly
• scatterbrained
• scowled

Two Bit knew better than to scare Johnny like that.  I guess he'd forgotten.  he's kind of __________.

• aloofness
• scatterbrained
• ornery
• cuning

Dallas _________ for a second.  If it had been me, or Two Bit, or Soda or Steve, or anyone but Johnny, Dally would have flattened him without a momen'ts hesitation.  

• winced
• scowled
• scatterbrained
• rogusishly

Dally grinned ________.  "Im never nice.  Want a Coke?"

• roguishly
• incredulous
• unceasingly
• ornery

Johnny's eyes went round and he _______ as though I'd belted him.  Two-Bit slapped me a good one across the side of the head, and hard.  

• winced
• scowled
• muttered
• aloofness