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The Outsiders Ch9-12
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Underprivileged P 136 | Not enjoying the social or economic benefit others have or needy or disadvantaged |
Conformity P 137 | Acting according to general rules or standards or fitting in |
Ruefully P 139 | Regretfully or sorrowfully |
Leery P 139 | Suspicious or wary |
Taut P 142 | Pulled tight or not slack or tense |
Contracted P 149 | To draw together or shrink |
Stupor P 150 | State when mind and senses are dulled or in a daze |
Stricken P 152 | Tortured or agonized or heartbroken |
Delirious P 158 | Wildly irrational or mentally wandering or not clearly in touch with reality |
Clad P 158 | Dressed in or wearing |
idolized p.162 | Adore or worshipped or blindly admired |
Hearing p. 164 | An appearance in court in front of a judge. |
guardian p. 165 | Protector or one who watches over another |
liable p. 165 | Most likely to happen |
flinching p. 168 | Withdraw or pull back or shrink from |
acquitted p.168 | Set free after evidence is considered |
vacuum p. 173 | State of emptiness or void |
veered p.175 | Shifting from one direction to another or turned |
welled p.177 | Gushed up |
vast p. 179 | Great in size or extremely large |