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The Outsiders 7-9
Vocabulary from Chapters 7-9
Term | Definition |
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admiring | Regard with respect or warm approval. |
radiates | clearly emanate through their expression or bearing. |
gleeful | Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful. |
assure | Tell someone something positively or confidently to dispel any doubts they may have |
imagination | The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses |
awakened | Rouse from sleep; cause to stop sleeping. |
interviewed | Question (someone) to discover their opinions or experience. |
pleaded | Make an emotional appeal |
expression | A look on someone's face that conveys a particular emotion |
practically | Almost; nearly something |
faltered | Start to lose strength or momentum |
abrupt | Sudden and unexpected. |
resemblance | Have qualities or features, especially those of appearance, in common with (someone or something); look or seem like. |
ornery | Bad-tempered |
divert | Cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another. |
hesitation | The action of pausing or hesitating before saying or doing something. |
contracted | Decrease in size, number, or range. |
spruced | Make a person or place smarter or tidier |
necessary | Required to be done, achieved, or present; needed; essential |
digested | Understand or assimilate (new information or the significance of something) by a period of reflection. |
tense | (Especially of a muscle or someone's body) stretched tight or rigid |
grimace | An ugly, twisted expression on a person's face, typically expressing disgust, pain, or wry amusement. |
superiority | The state of being superior; dominance or supremacy |
delinquent | (Typically of a young person or that person's behavior) showing or characterized by a tendency to commit crime, particularly minor crime. |
realization | An act of becoming fully aware of something as a fact. |