Outsiders Vocabulary Chpt. 9-10

"Dally had taken the car and I started the long walk home in a _____. Johnny was dead".

• stupor

• grimacing

• agony

• ruefully

"He was very still for a moment and I thought in _____: He's dead already. We're too late".

• leery

• delirious

• agony

• mortal

What word best replaces the blank in the sentence?

"One of the Brumly guys waved me over. We mostly stuck with our own outfits, so I was a little _____".

• leery

• mortal

• delirious

• stupor

What word completes the sentence?

"Then I hurried to take a shower and change clothes. Me and Soda and Darry always got _______ up before a rumble".

• grimacing

• spruced

• ruefully

• leery

"We stood there clenching our teeth and _______ , with sweat pouring down our faces".

• grimacing

• delerious

• stupor

• wearily

Oh, no, I thought in _________ fear, I've got to be in it. Right then the most important thing in my life was helping us whip the Socs.

• mortal

• agony

• affectionately

• stifled

I think he could have whipped anyone, in the state he was in.

Today's Tuesday, and you've been asleep and ________ since Saturday night.

• stupor

• dumbfounded

• delirious

• clenched

Which word would best replace the blank in the sentence?

"Curly's in the reformatory for the next six months ,' Tim grinned _____, probably thinking of his roughneck hard-headed brother".

• ornery

• ruefully

• detached

• panicky

The child cried in ______ after breaking her arm.

• stupor

• delerious

• grimacing

• agony

The little puppy was _____ of leaving his mother for the first time.

• wearily

• indignantly

• leery

• dumbfounded