The Outsiders Vocabulary
Across
- 4. Someone of distinguished courage, braveness, or ability.
- 6. A penal institution like a jail, to change young offenders, especially minors.
- 8. When someone does something that causes physical or mental harm.
- 10. The simple past tense of stride, basically to walk.
- 11. A facial expression that usually suggests disgust or pain, but sometimes a comic exaggeration.
- 13. Usually refers to people's behavior or looks, but it can also be used to describe something that matches the form of something else.
- 15. Another word for fooled.
Down
- 1. The reduction of sensibility, as in disease caused by narcotics, intoxicants, ect.
- 2. A smart remark or a remark not to be taken literally.
- 3. A child or young person whom has commited a crime.
- 5. A new gang inroduced in this chapter, they also helped the Greasers win the rumble.
- 7. Another word for a rumble or a fight.
- 9. To strike with astonishment or be amazed with something.
- 12. A word that is used differently than usual. It is used as a cuss word.
- 14. Doing or saying something with sorrow or pitty.