The Outsiders Vocabulary Chapters 5-8

worried that something bad will happen

• apprehensive

• contemptuously

• defiance

• reformatory

an institution for young offenders

• apprehensive

• contemptuous

• defiance

• reformatory

open, bold or hostile refusal to obey or conform

• apprehensive

• contemptuously

• defiance

• reformatory

stubbornly determined; tenacious

• numbly

• divert

• resemblance

• doggedly

to turn from one course or use another

• numbly

• divert

• resemblance

• doggedly

an absense of emotion

• numbly

• divert

• resemblance

• doggedly

earnestly asking for something

• unceasingly

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

to escape

• unceasingly

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

feeling weak due to illness

• unceasingly

• eluded

• groggy

• imploringly

annoyed at the unfairness of something

• indignant

• reluctantly

• bewilderment

• defeated