The Outsiders Vocabulary Chapters 1-9

an institution for juvenile law offenders

• ruefully

• reformatory

• premonition

• apprehensive

shocked or astonished; to be made speeechless

• ornery

• aloof

• dumbfounded

• unfathomable

feeling or showing anger or strong displeasure towards something or someone

• exploits

• dogged

• indignant

• divert

gloomy, bad tempered, or pouty

• hue

• indignant

• sullen

• doggedly

to be suspicious of, to be cautious due to suspicion

• grimace

• contemptuously

• leery

• hue

to be stubborn or grouchy; ill-tempered

• elite

• dumbfounded

• aloof

• ornery

to speak or move hesitantly or unsteadily

• sullen

• conformity

• falter

• mimic

a positive quality or thing that can be used to advantage OR

something or something that can gives you an advantage

• nonchalant

• asset

• ornery

• dumbfounded

heroic acts, to be daring; or to gain benefit from others

• exploits

• reluctantly

• indignant

• divert

to escape from or to avoid

• hue

• indignant

• elude

• doggedly