THE OUTSIDERS Vocabulary ch. 5-8

I was trying to find the meaning the poet had in mind, but it _____ me.

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

• indignant

• reluctantly

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"You're starved?" Johnny was so _____ he nearly squeaked. I remembered the baloney.

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

• indignant

• reluctantly

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

I looked at Johnny _____. Johnny sighed. "I'm gonna cut mine too, and wash the grease out, but I can't bleach it."

• eluded

• groogy

• imploringly

• indignant

• reluctantly

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Two-Bit left me sitting on the bench at the bus stop while he went to a gas station to buy some cigarettes. I was kind of sick to my stomach and sort of _____.

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

• indignant

• reluctantly

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"All right," Two-Bit said_____. "But Darry'll kill me if you're really sick and go ahead and fight anyway."

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

• indignant

• reluctantly

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I _____ the scene with pride. I was the youngest one there. Even Curly, if he had been there, had turned fifteen, so he was older than me.

• bewilderment

• defeated

• hysterics

• surveyed

• tangle

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

started to laugh weakly. I guess that guy knew how close to _____ I really was, for he talked to me in a low soothing voice all the way to the hospital.

• bewilderment

• defeated

• hysterics

• surveyed

• tangle

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Johnny didn't say anything. But he stared at the dashboard with such hurt ______ that I could have bawled.

• bewilderment

• defeated

• hysterics

• surveyed

• tangle

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

If something beefed him, he didn't keep quiet about it, and if you rubbed him the wrong way --- look out. Not even Darry wanted to _____ with him.

• bewilderment

• defeated

• hysterics

• surveyed

• tangle

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

He wasn't scared either. That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that _____, suspicious look in his eyes.

• bewilderment

• defeated

• hysterics

• surveyed

• tangle

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4