7-outsiders Vocab-pele16

Question 0

Rarely

Answer 0

“My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in back and long at the front and sides, but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely bothers to get a haircut.”

“He’s always happy-go-lucky and grinning, while Darry’s hard and firm and rarely grins at all.”

1. uncommon, infrequent

“Normally on Mondays my class and I have a substitute, but rarely does my home room teacher stay and teach us.”

Question 1

Content

Answer 1

“I wish they were more gray, because I hate most guys that have green eyes, but I have to be content with what I have”.

1. sastisfied with, pleased

“I was content with the idea of going to Disneyland on a school night, dude to missing school and testing.”

Question 2

Loned

Answer 2

“So I loned it.”

1. went by oneself, went alone, solo

“I had loned to the movies because I feel better alone/by myself.”

Question 3

Asset

Answer 3

“Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next”

1.worth, of value

“I was very mad about losing my watch because it was asset to me.”

Question 4

Slouched

Answer 4

“I automatically hitched my thumbs in my jeans and slouched, wondering if I could get away if I made a break for it.”

“Two-Bit took a long drag on his cigarette, Johnny slouched and hooked his thumbs in his pockets, and I stiffened.”

1. to sit or stand in a drooping (over) manner

“My back was hurting because I was slouching from doing homework.”

Question 5

Madras

Answer 5

“He had on a madras shirt.”
“Blue madras.”
“Lying beside Soda, staring at the wall, I kept remembering the faces of the Socs as they surrounded me, that blue madras shirt the blond was wearing, and I could still hear a thick voice: “Need a haircut, greaser?” I shivered.”
“I really couldn’t see what Socs would have to sweat about—good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs—Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I’d consider”
“One had on a white shirt and a madras ski jacket, and the other a light-yellow shirt and a wine-colored sweater.”

1. cotton fabric shirt, usually bright colored

“The new shirt my mother had bought me was made out of Madras.”

Question 6

Cowlick

Answer 6

“He has dark-brown hair that kicks out in front and a slight cowlick in the back—just like Dad’s—but Darry’s eyes are his own.”

1. tuft of hair growing in a different direction

“My cousin Alex has tuft hair, so she has to go to the salon to get it braided.”

Question 7

Quivering

Answer 7

“I drew a quivering breath and quit crying.”
“My breath was coming in quivering sobs.”

1.trembling, shaking, tremulous

“I was quivering when I saw that my mother had not arrived with my father from their trip.”

Question 8

complicated

Answer 8

“Steve Randle was seventeen, tall and lean, with thick greasy hair he kept combed in complicated swirls.”

1.involved, complex, hard to understand

“The food process begin to get complicated due to not being able to have food in the orina.”

Question 9

Sarcasm

Answer 9

“Sure,” I said, trying for Soda’s sake to keep the sarcasm out of my voice”

1.a bitter cutting jest, cutting remark

“I knew her voice had sarcasm in it, just by the way she was moving and making jesters.”

Question 10

Incredulous

Answer 10

“She gave him an incredulous look; and then she threw her Coke in his face.”

1. Unbelieving

“Lisa isn’t a very good liar because when you take a look at her face she gives an incredulous look, which is never believable.”

Question 11

Nonchalantly

Answer 11

“Okay,” I said nonchalantly, “might as well.”

1.indifferently, no matter which way its done

“The math problem was nonchalantly no matter which way she tried to solve it.”

Question 12

Sophisticated

Answer 12

“We’re sophisticated—cool to the point of not feeling anything.”

1.cultured, worldly

“My sister was the only sophisticated sixteen year hold I had ever met.”

Question 13

Elite

Answer 13

“And,” Two-Bit added grimly, “a few other of the socially elite checkered-shirt set.”

1.a select body, the best, top of the top

“I play on an elite team because we play the best of the best in volleyball.”

Question 14

Resignedly

Answer 14

“Well,” Cherry said resignedly, “they’ve spotted us.”

1.giving up and accepting the future

“Since Joe did not study, he didn’t know anything on the test, so he had resignedly that he was going to fail.”

Question 15

Unceasingly

Answer 15

“My teeth chattered unceasingly and I couldn’t stop them.”

1.continous, not ceasing, not stopping

“Lisa was seriously about studying, sometimes she went on unceasingly till 12 o’clock without any breaks.”

Question 16

Bootlegging

Answer 16

“He was the one who’d got Dally the job as a jockey for the Slash J. Buck raised a few quarter horses, and made most of his money on fixed races and a little bootlegging”

1.illegal action of selling alcohol where not legally permitted

“My dad wanted to buy a bootlegged movie because the movie he wanted to see didn’t come out in DVD yet.”

Question 17

apprehensive

Answer 17

“He was pretty well crocked, which made me apprehensive”

1.scornful, insolent, to be concerned or worried

“Mayra was apprehensive about the math test.”

Question 18

Contemptuously

Answer 18

“Oh, shoot, kid”—Dally glanced contemptuously over his shoulder—“I was in the bedroom.”

1.afraid, suspicious

“Eric was contemptuously when he went to bed in the dark due to the scary movie he had watched with his friends.”

Question 19

Winced

Answer 19

“I winced inside. I’ve told you I can’t stand it that Soda dropped out.”
“Johnny’s eyes went round and he winced as though I’d belted him.”

1.to recoil from pain, to jump back with pain

“Luran winced by the baseball that had hit her in the back at her baseball game.”