The Outsiders, Vocabulary, Ch 4-6

nervous or fearful

• apprehensive

• indignant

• defiance

• bewilderment

to escape is to ​ ​ (a)  

• elude
• reform
• imploringly
• contemptuously

failure to understand, confusion

• bewilderment

• reform

• apprehensive

• indignant

in a disrespectful manner is ​ (a)  

• contemptuously
• imploringly
• elude
• unceasingly

to beat another at something

• defeat

• reform

• apprehensive

• defiance

an angry challenge

• defiance

• indignant

• apprehensive

• bewilderment

to ask by begging is ​ (a)   ​

• imploringly
• reform
• defeat
• unceasingly

to make improvements

• reform

• defiance

• elude

• defeat

very angry

• indignant

• elude

• an angry challenge

• reform

to continue without stopping

• unceasingly

• contemptuously

• imploringly

• bewilderment