Outsiders Vocabulary

a bold resistance to authority

• defiance
• aloofness
• cunning
• hesitation

obnoxious or stubborn

• indignant
• ornery
• disgrace
• scatterbrained

disinterest; distant in feeling

• defiance
• aloofness
• nonchalantly
• reluctantly

incapable of being serious or meaningful thought

• ornery
• unfathomable
• disgrace
• scatterbrained

An institute for young offenders

• indignant
• ornery
• reformatory
• defiance

showing string displeasure at something unjust or offensive

• indignant
• incredulous
• nonchalantly
• aloofness

hesitantly; resistantly; unwillingly

• defiance
• unfathomable
• hesitation
• reluctantly

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

a delay to fear or unceratinty

• disgrace
• defiance
• hesitation
• roguishly

loss of respect or honor

• gallantly
• winced
• unfathomable
• disgrace

indifferently; casually

• reformatory
• nonchalantly
• reluctantly
• gallantly