The Outsiders Ch. 7-8 Vocab. Quiz

To play the part of the southern belle in the production, you must be able to talk with a southern _____.

• brawn

• drawl

• divert

• exploit

After seeing the ______ look on my sister's face, I knew the news about my grandpa's health was not good.

• bleak

• contemptuous

• reluctant

• brawn

The ______ of the football player was obvious as he picked up the refrigerator by himself.

• aghast

• bleak

• brawn

• exploit

Dean ________ agreed it was a clever idea even though he thought it was a waste of time.

• aghast

• exploits

• contemptuously

• reluctantly

The teacher was _____ at how many of her students did not study for the test.

• aghast

• diverted

• bleak

• reluctant

When my family gets together, our grandparents love to tell us stories about the ______ of their youth.

• aghast

• exploits

• brawn

• bleak

I don't understand why so many people speak ______ about Taylor Swift just because she is attending her boyfriend's football games. She has as much right to go to a game as anyone else.

• divert

• exploits

• contemptuously

• reluctantly

Phones often ______ our attention from the people we are actually with.

• aghast

• exploit

• divert

• bleak