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