Outsiders Chp 7-8 Vocab

Cold and forbidding

• aghast

• brawn

• bleak

• reluctantly

Speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowels

• contemptuously

• drawled

• divert

• exploits

physical strength in a contrast to intelligence

• brawn

• bleak

• contemptuously

• aghast

Filled with horror or shock

• divert

• brawn

• exploits

• aghast

An act/deed - especially a brilliant, bold, or heroic one

• drawled

• exploits

• reluctantly

• aghast

The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving of hate

• bleak

• divert

• contemptuously

• reluctantly

distract (someone or their attention) from something

• divert

• drawled

• brawn

• exploits

hesitant or unwilling; disinclined

• aghast

• reluctantly

• contemptuously

• exploits