The Outsiders Vocabulary Ch. 1-4

Difficult or impossible to understand

• incredulous

• unfathomable

• elite

the best of a class; of the highest quality

• defiance

• elite

• contemptuous

playfully mischievous

• roguishly

• incredulous

• cowlick

An unruly tuft of hair. Grows in a different direction, making it hard to lay down.

• elite

• hastily

• cowlick

quickly, without much thought

• aloof

• gallantly

• hastily

bold resistance

• incredulous

• unfathomable

• defiant

Skeptical; disbelieving

• incredulous

• gallantly

• elite

polite and attentive to women

• elite

• aloof

• gallant

removed or distant in interest or feeling

• aloof

• gallant

• incredulous

Cotton, plaid material

• madras

• cowlick

• gallant