The Outsiders Chapter 1-3 Vocabulary

a useful or valuable thing, person, or quality.

• Asset

• Quivering

• Premonition

• Ornery

trembling or shaking with a slight rapid motion.

• Winced

• Gingerly

• Quivering

• Unfathomable

incapable of being fully explored or understood.

• Scowled

• Milling

• Aloofness

• Unfathomable

in a careful or cautious manner.

• Gingerly

• Unceasingly

• Clad

• Hermit

frown in an angry or bad-tempered way.

• Ornery

• Scowled

• Asset

• Quivering

in a casually calm and relaxed manner.

• Nonchalantly

• Gallantly

• Premonition

• Unfathomable

moving around in a confused mass.

• Ornery

• Hermit

• Clad

• Milling

the quality or state of being aloof, distant, or reserved; indifference:

• Aloofness

• Asset

• Milling

• Gingerly

Bad-tempered and combative.

• Winced

• Ornery

• Assets

• Nonchalantly

Give a slight involuntary grimace or shrinking movement of the body out of or in anticipation of pain or distress.

• Winced

• Quivering

• Milling

• Gallantly