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Blair's Test
"DMS" Outsiders Test B
terms | definitions | sentences |
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sullenly | gloomily, morosely, or grimly | After getting back his math test, the boy ___ walked out of his class with the D paper in his hand. |
hue | shade of color | The ___ of the leaves on the plants were golden. |
subsided | sink to a lower level, cave in, slips or goes away | After the tsunami's huge waves ___,the rescue workers tried to help those who were hurt. |
eluded | escaped from, couldn't figure out, dodge, avoid, evade | Johnny and Ponyboy ___ the police by running away to the country. |
vital | necessary to life or important | Johnny felt it was ___ to get all of the children out of the fire even if it meant he got hurt. |
indignant | angry and at some unfairness | Ponyboy became ___ when his brother Darry slapped him because he had not meant to fall asleep outside and worry Darry. |
wistfully | wishing | Ponyboy ___ hoped that he and Johnny would be able to go back home and not have to stay hidden forever. |
desperately | urgently and sometimes dreadfully ready to run any risk | Johnny and Ponyboy ___ ran into the burning to get the children out. |
doggedly | persistently, not giving up, resolulte and steadfast | The Socs ___ tried to give the Greasers and hard time every time they saw them. |
bewilderment | confusion | Because of the ___ of all of her students with a particular chapter in math, the teacher postponed the test for another day. |
conviction | firm belief | It is my ___ that Dally wanted the police to shoot him because he did not want to live after Johnny had died. |
hysterics | loosing emotional control, getting crazy | Dally's ___ after Johnny's death were obvious because he was crying and punching the walls in the hospital, and then he ran away. |
mimicking | copying, imitating or impersonating | "Stop ___ me," yelled the girl to her older sister who kept copying her and making fun of her. |
radiates | shines or glowing with radiation | Johnny and Ponyboy watch the sun as it ___ across the field early in the morning. |
stunned | shocked, astonished, or appalled | All of the Greasers were ___ by the death of Dally and were aghast that the police had actually killed him. |
aghast | to be surprised or make senseless | The teacher was ___ that not one child had completed the homework. |
individual | single, separate, or alone | Each ___ character in the Outsiders had a different type of personality. |
imploringly | in a begging manner, beseechingly, or pleadingly | The child begged ____ for a candy bar when he went to the commissary with his mother. |