The Outsiders Vocabulary

Chapters 1-2

a useful or valuable thing, person, or quality ASSET PART OF SPEECH NOUN SYNONYMS BENEFIT ADVANTAGE a useful or valuable thing, person, or quality

INCAPABLE OF BEING UNDERSTOOD UNFATHOMABLE PART OF SPEECH ADJECTIVE SYNONYMS INCOMPREHENSIBLE INCAPABLE OF BEING UNDERSTOOD

UNWILLING OR UNABLE TO BELIEVE SOMETHING INCREDULOUS PART OF SPEECH ADJECTIVE SYNONYMS SKEPTICAL SUSPICIOUS UNWILLING OR UNABLE TO BELIEVE SOMETHING

GINGERLY CAREFULLY PART OF SPEECH ADVERB SYNONYMS CAUTIOUSLY DELICATELY CAREFULLY

IN A WAY THAT IS UNCONCERNED OR UNEXCITED NONCHALANTLY PART OF SPEECH ADVERB SYNONYMS INDIFFERENT IN A WAY THAT IS UNCONCERNED OR UNEXCITED

TO MAKE CHANGES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE REFORM PART OF SPEECH VERB SYNONYMS IMPROVE REORGANIZE RESTRUCTURE TO MAKE CHANGES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE

Chapters 3 - 4

ORNERY STUBBORN AND BAD-TEMPERED PART OF SPEECH ADJECTIVE SYNONYMS IRRITABLE GROUCHY STUBBORN AND BAD-TEMPERED

ELITE THE BEST OF ANYTHING; HIGH CLASS PEOPLE PART OF SPEECH NOUN SYNONYMS PRIVILEGED CREAM OF THE CROP THE BEST OF ANYTHING; HIGH CLASS PEOPLE

FEARFUL OF SOMETHING THAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN APPREHENSIVE PART OF SPEECH ADJECTIVE SYNONYMS HESITANT UNCERTAIN UPTIGHT FEARFUL OF SOMETHING THAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN

Chapters 5 - 6

TO PLEAD IN A BEGGING WAY IMPLORINGLY PART OF SPEECH ADVERB SYNONYMS IN A PLEADING WAY TO PLEAD IN A BEGGING WAY

TO ESCAPE, ESPECIALLY FROM DANGER ELUDE PART OF SPEECH VERB SYNONYMS AVOID DODGE TO ESCAPE, ESPECIALLY FROM DANGER

BAD-TEMPERED AND SULKY; IN A DEPRESSED MOOD SULLEN PART OF SPEECH ADJECTIVE SYNONYMS MOROSE GLOOMY BAD-TEMPERED AND SULKY; IN A DEPRESSED MOOD

BRAVE; LIKE A GENTLEMAN GALLANT PART OF SPEECH ADJECTIVE SYNONYMS HEROIC CHIVALROUS BRAVE; LIKE A GENTLEMAN

HUE PART OF SPEECH NOUN SYNONYMS COLOR SHADE A COLOR OR SHADE

DOGGEDLY NOT GIVING UP EASILY PART OF SPEECH ADVERB SYNONYMS TENACIOUSLY DETERMINEDLY PERSISTENTLY NOT GIVING UP EASILY

Chapters 7 - 8

Chapters 9 – 10

Chapters 11-12