The Outsiders: Section 2

Question 0

Avoiding

Answer 0

to keep away from; keep clear of; shun

to prevent from happening

Question 1

Apprehensive

Answer 1

uneasy or fearful about something that might happen
quick to learn or understand
perceptive; discerning

Question 2

Bewildering

Answer 2

extremely confusing

Question 3

Bleak

Answer 3

bare, desolate, and often windswept
cold and piercing; raw
without hope or encouragement; depressing; dreary

Question 4

Contemptuously

Answer 4

showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.

Question 5

Defiance

Answer 5

a daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force.

Question 6

Dumbfounded

Answer 6

to make speechless with amazement; astonish.

Question 7

Gallantly

Answer 7

brave, spirited, noble-minded, or chivalrous
exceptionally polite and attentive to women; courtly.
stately; grand
showy, colorful, or stylish, as in dress; magnificent.

Question 8

Groggy

Answer 8

staggering, as from exhaustion or blows

dazed and weakened, as from lack of sleep

Question 9

Ornery

Answer 9

ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper

stubborn, inferior or common; ordinary.

Question 10

Passionately

Answer 10

having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid
expressing, showing, or marked by intense or strong feeling; emotional
intense or vehement, as emotions or feelings

Question 11

Premonition

Answer 11

a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment
a forewarning.

Question 12

Quavered

Answer 12

to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble
to sound, speak, or sing tremulously
to perform trills in singing or on a musical instrument
to utter, say, or sing with a quavering or tremulous voice.

Question 13

Quivering

Answer 13

to shake with a slight but rapid motion; vibrate tremulously; tremble.

Question 14

Rave

Answer 14

to talk wildly, as in delirium.
to talk or write with extravagant enthusiasm
to utter as if in madness

Question 15

Resignedly

Answer 15

submissive or acquiescent.

characterized by or indicative of resignation.

Question 16

Ruefully

Answer 16

causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable

feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful; doleful

Question 17

Sassy

Answer 17

impertinent; insolent; saucy

pert; boldly smart;

Question 18

Sophisticated

Answer 18

altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive
pleasing or satisfactory to the tastes of sophisticates
deceptive; misleading.
complex or intricate, as a system, process, piece of machinery, or the like
of, for, or reflecting educated taste, knowledgeable use, etc.

Question 19

Unceasingly

Answer 19

not ceasing or stopping; continuous

Question 20

Winced

Answer 20

to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; start; flinch.