The Outsiders Chapters 7 - 8 Practice Quiz

filled with horror or shock

• divert

• doggedly

• bleak

• aghast

Deficient in quantity or number compared with the 

demand.

• scarce

• bleak

• recurring

• exploits

To imitate closely.

• reluctantly

• mimicking

• divert

• doggedly

 With obstinate determination.

• mimicking

• faltered

• reluctantly

• doggedly

To happen many times repeatedly.

• faltered

• recurring

• reluctantly

• aghast

Criminal behavior, especially that carried out by a juvenile.

• charity

• aimlessly

• abruptly

• delinquent

to speak in a hesitant or unsteady voice

• faltered

• scarce

• bleak

• divert

to use or manipulate to one's advantage

• aghast

• faltered

• divert

• exploits

To turn aside; turn away from.

• doggedly

• mimicking

• divert

• recurring

The police officer had to _______ traffic around the fallen tree.

• bleak

• aghast

• divert

• faltererd