The Outsiders Vocabulary

He like fights, blondes, and for some ____ reason, school.

• unfathomable

• ornery

• sullen

• gallant

Cherry and Marcia didn't have a way to get home.  Two-Bit ____ offered to walk them home.

• nonchalantly

• doggedly

• gallantly

• contemptuously

Johnny idolized Dally. This means he

• didn't like him or want to be like him.

• worshiped or admired him too much.

• thought he was very important.

• thought he was the strongest greaser of the group.

Imploringly means

• to say something in a persistent way.

• to say something in a stern tone.

• to say something out of turn.

• to say something meaningful.

"I was scared," Johnny said with ​ (a)   . "I got a good chance of being' let off easy," Johnny said desperately.”

• conviction

• bewilderment

• contemptuous

• aloofness

• Premonition

• gallant

• Conform

• Menace

• Delirious

• Pity

“I hated them as bitterly and ​ (a)   as Dally Winston hated.”

• conviction

• aloofness

• Premonition

• gallant

• Conform

• Menace

• Delirious

• Pity

• bewilderment

• contemptously

Match the vocabulary word with the correct definition.

• a person living alone

• hermit

• clothed

• milling

• feeling that something is about happen

• premonition

• appearing calm and relaxed

• nonchalantly

• moving about in a disorganized way

• clad

You greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional. We're ​ (a)   -cool to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is real with us.”

• grudge

• aloof

• premonition

• gallant

• subside

• conviction

• bewilderment

• contemptuous

• incredulous

• sophisticated

Match the following vocabulary words to the correct definition.

• bad behavior

• aloofness

• cool and distant

• ornery

• not stopping

• scowled

• not believable

• unfathomable

• frowned in an angry way

• unceasingly

With a (a)   playful wink, Alex told a story so wild that everyone looked at him ​ (b)   , not believing a word.

• roguishly

• incredulously

• savvy

• unfathomable

• reckless