Vocabulary: The Outsiders 23-24

a positive quality or thing that can be used to advantage

• asset

• incredulous

• delirious

• nonchalant

a light cotton plaid fabric

• header

• exploits

• madras

• stupor

indicating or showing disbelief

• a weed

• composition

• doggedly

• incredulous

coolly unconcerned or unexcited

• flinching

• falter

• nonchalant

• jumped

in a brave, valiant, nobleminded, or chivalrous way

• acquitted

• falter

• gallantly

• asset

an institution for reforming or disciplining young offenders

• fuzz

• Socs

• grimace

• reformatory

a slang word for cigarette

• acquitted

• a weed

• falter

• doggedly

the slang word for a girl

• aghast

• broad

• liable

• falter

a bad feeling about a future event

• agony

• nonchalant

• premonition

• divert

a slang word for a gun

• heater

• reformatory

• contemptuously

• delirious