REVIEW - The Outsiders - Ch. 4-6 Vocabulary

Match the following

• without stopping

•  quaver

• shiny, as if wet

•  unceasingly

• showing scarcely suppressed anger

•  smoldering

• give off unsteady sounds

• glint

• tall and thin, and having long slender limbs

•  lanky

Match the following

• expressing extreme scorn

•  defiance

• in fear or dread of possible evil or harm

•  apprehensive

• wearing or provided with clothing

•  towhead

• intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude

•  contemptuous

• a person with light blond hair

•  clad

Match the following

• stunned or confused and slow to react

•  groggy

• showing a sense of shame

•  racket

• cause to be confused emotionally

•  ruefully

• in a manner expressing pain or sorrow

•  sheepish

• a loud and disturbing noise

•  bewilder

Match the following

• set at a high angle (of a slope)

•  sullenly

• in a pleading manner

•  sprawl

• in a manner showing a brooding ill humor

•  premonition

• a feeling of evil to come

•  steep

• sit or lie with one's limbs spread out

•  imploringly

Match the following

• descend into or as if into some soft substance or place

•  notion

• short hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved

•  elude

• be incomprehensible to

•  subside

• a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

•  stubble

• angered at something unjust or wrong

•  indignant

Match the following

• speak in a slow and drawn out way

•  wistfully

• overeat or eat immodestly

•  gorge

• look over carefully or inspect

•  drawl

• in a pensively sad manner

•  doggedly

• with obstinate determination

•  survey

Match the following

• an unshakable belief in something without need for proof

•  detached

• deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness

•  conviction

• at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence)

•  severe

• showing lack of emotional involvement

•  hoarse

• very bad in degree or extent

•  promptly