The Outsiders Vocabulary

4. In New York, Dally blew off steam in gang fights, but here, organized gangs are ________.
5. I ______ inside.
8. He liked fights, blondes and for some ________ reason, school.
10. She gave him an _______ look; and then she threw her Coke in his face.
13. He has dark-brown hair that kicks out in front and a slight _______ in the back...
15. Not like the Socs, who...get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an _______ to society the next.
16. He’s not as tall as Darry, and he’s a little slimmer, but he has a finely drawn, sensitive face that somehow manages to be _______ and thoughtful at the same time.
17. “Okay,” I said ________, “might as well.”

1. I drew a _______ breath and quit crying.
2. So are chains and _______ and pool sticks and rumbles.
3. I looked away hurriedly because, if you want to know the truth, I was starting to _______.
6. Dally - wild, _______, Dally - turning into a hoodlum because he’d die if he didn’t...
7. Two-Bit _________ offered to walk them home.
9. Socs were always behind a wall of _________, careful not to let their real selves show through.
11. Dally grinned _______.
12. “It’s because you’re the baby- I mean, he loves you a lot. ______?”
14. Mickey Mouse was a dark-gold buckskin, sassy and _______, not much more than a colt.