The Outsiders Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. swirl of hair that sticks up
  2. 5. someone or something that threatens or bothers
  3. 7. getting things by using deceit
  4. 11. feeling annoyance at what seems like unfair treatment
  5. 13. admired or revered excessively
  6. 16. spoken or moved in a way showing lack of strength
  7. 17. gloomy, bad-tempered in a gloomy way
  8. 20. mischievously
  9. 22. having changed direction suddenly
  10. 24. stunned or surprised
  11. 27. in an indirect or not straightforward way
  12. 29. tentative or fearful something bad will happen
  13. 32. brave or heroic, chivalrous
  14. 35. filled with horror or shock
  15. 36. expressing regret, with humor
  16. 37. wildly emotional reactions
  17. 39. grim persistence, in a determined way, esp.
  18. 40. essential to life, of great importance
  19. 42. daring or bold resistance to authority
  20. 43. unable to breathe properly
  21. 45. strong feeling that something is about to happen
Down
  1. 1. confusion or disorientation, beyond understanding
  2. 3. crushed, folded, collapsed
  3. 4. a firmly held belief
  4. 6. bold or daring feats
  5. 8. unimaginable
  6. 9. type of plaid in linen or cotton
  7. 10. escaped or evaded
  8. 12. casually, as if with ease
  9. 14. cautious or suspicious
  10. 15. a state of mental confusion often assoc. with illness
  11. 18. to imitate, in order to ridicule or entertain
  12. 19. uncertain or unclear meaning
  13. 21. a place where greasers live
  14. 23. to cause to change course or draw attention away
  15. 25. without feeling
  16. 26. loud, sobbing cry
  17. 28. bat tempered or combative
  18. 30. extremely large or great in size
  19. 31. lacking vegetation; inhospitable or miserable
  20. 33. freed of a criminal charge
  21. 34. cool and distant, in a not friendly way
  22. 38. looked over carefully, in order to appraise
  23. 41. a state of near-consciousness
  24. 44. extreme physical or mental suffering