The Outsiders Vocabulary Ch. 1-6

ornery

• 
• happy and cheerful

• calm and peaceful

• confused and lost

hesitation

• 
• indecision

• confidence

• clarity

eluded

• 
• caught

• understood

• revealed

contemptuously

• 
• in a scornful manner

• in a friendly way

• with indifference

conviction

• 
• A legal term for a guilty verdict

• A feeling of uncertainty

• A type of punishment

defeated

• 
• lost

• conquered

• overcame

bewilderment

• 
• happiness

• anger

• calmness

reformatory

• 
• A type of educational institution

• A facility for adult prisoners

• A government office for social services

roguish

• 
• serious and stern

• timid and shy

• boring and dull

unceasingly

• 
• occasionally

• rarely

• intermittently