Outsiders Vocabulary Quiz 4-6

Yet in his hard face there was character, pride, and a savage _____ of the world. He rubbed his side ruefully.

• defiance

• reformatory

• premonition

• reluctantly

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

• reluctantly

• eluded

• indignant

• surveyed

"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"

• defeated

• defiance

• defiance

• tangle

"Dally _____ the scene without interest. 'I ain't never been in the country before'"

• premonition

• surveyed

• defeated

• tangled

"I put the book down _____. I wanted to start it right then"

• conviction

• eluded

• tangle

• reluctantly

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

• reformatory

• premonition

• conviction

• eluded

"Not even Darry wanted to _____ with [Dally]. He was dangerous"

• reformatory

• tangle

• premonition

• defeated

But this church gave me a kind of creepy feeling. What do you call it? _____?

• Conviction

• Premonition

• Tangle

• Defiance

If Johnny got caught, they'd give him the electric chair, and if they caught me, I'd be sent to a _____.

• premonition

• eluded

• indignant

• reformatory

"I was scared," Johnny said with _____. "I still am."

• quivering

• heaters

• conviction

• elite