The Outsiders - Vocabulary - Chapters 5-10

begging or pleading- as in begging someone to do something

• imploringly

• sullenly

• eluded

• vital

absolutely necessary or important; essential

• vital

• indignant

• jolt

• doggedly

great; immense; intense

• mortal

• spruced

• grimacing

• ruefully

bad-tempered; sulky, gloomy

• imploringly

• sullenly

• eluded

• vital

failed to grasp or remember - like an idea or fact

• imploringly

• sullenly

• eluded

• vital

expressing sorrow or regret especially when in a slightly humorous way

• ruefully

• leery

• agony

• stupor

a disturbed state of mind resulting from illness

• grimacing

• agony

• delirious

• stupor

cold and forbidding

• bleak

• drawled

• brawn

• aghast

the feeling that a person or thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving of hate.

• reluctantly

• divert

• contemptuously

• exploits

extreme physical or mental suffering

• agony

• stupor

• delirious

• mortal