The Outsiders Vocab

Incredulous

• confusing or perplexing

• a wildly emotional and exaggerated reaction

• bad-tempered and combative

• unwilling or unable to believe something

Aloof

• unwilling or unable to believe something

• feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment

• not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant

• speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sounds

Bleak

• confusing or perplexing

• cold and miserable

• beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something

• bird nose

Contemptuously

• in a scornful way that shows disrespect

• With contempt

• not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant

• Both A and B

Bewildering

• brave, heroic

• feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment

• a wildly emotional and exaggerated reaction

• confusing or perplexing

Premonition

• a wildly emotional and exaggerated reaction

• a firmly held belief or opinion

• a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant

• unwilling or unable to believe something

Implore

• unwilling or unable to believe something

• beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something

• evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way

• speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sounds

Sullen

• bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy

• unwilling or unable to believe something

• not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant

• cold and miserable

Gallant

• bad-tempered and combative

• confusing or perplexing

• brave, heroic

• not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant

Elude

• beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something

• evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way

• speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sounds

• not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant