Vocab - The Outsiders
Jane Chyun
Madras
• A cotton cloth of fine texture, usually with a plaid, striped, or checked pattern.
• I always wear my madras pants for pajama.
Cowlick
• A protecting tuft of hair on the head that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and will not lie flat.
• Nowadays, many teenage boys wants to cut their in cowlick style.
Unfathomable
• Difficult or impossible to understand and explain.
• Sea has unfathomable depth which can drive people into the water.
Savvy
• To have a good understanding and practical knowledge of something.
• She seems to be savvy and bright of all the lectures of Biology.
Aloof
• Person who is not very friendly and does not like to spend time with others.
• Because I didn’t wanted to get involved in fight, I stood aloof from their arguments.
Impersonally
• Lacking personality, not being a person.• The boss acted impersonally to his niece when he
made the small mistake.
Ornery
• Disagreeable and contrary in disposition with the personality of bad- tempered, difficult and mean.
• You will have hard time communicating and get along with ornery people.
Resignedly
• To accept without complaining.• He is now resigned to his roomate’s noise and mess.
Ruefully
• Causing or feeling pity or compassion.• I felt ruefully about the animals dieing for the human’s
cloth or food.
Hermit
• A person who has withdrawn from society and lives with a lonely existence.
• Hermit people are usually prisoners or the poors who were withdrawn from society.
Premonition
• The feeling that something is going to happen.
• I want to meet someone who can premonate my life and luck.
Reluctantly
• Unwilling feelings that are marked and exhibited.
• She reluctantly made her face frown and refused to take a picture with me.
Sullen
• Showing a bad humor or silent and dark resentment. ( Gloomy or somber in tone and color)
• In most of the movies, there are sullen characters who scares or revenges people.
Eluded
• To evade or escape from by cleverness and skill.
• The mice eluded to the hole from the cat’s attack.
Imploringly
• To appeal and beg troublesomely urgent or persistent with entreat pressingly.
• The student bagged imploringly to her teacher for her make up test.
Gallant
• Behave bravely and honorably in a dangerous or difficult situation.
• I saw a gallant man who dived into the water to survive young girl.
Indignant
• To be shocked and angry because of it’s unjustness and unfairness.
• I feels indignant when people insults and tortures person without any reason.
Testify
• To support the belief that the second thing is true.
• The police testified the man who held a gun in his hand.
Jolt
• To move suddenly and quite violently. It gives people unpleasant surprise or shock.
• He ran toward me and jolted me by slapping the head.
Kneeled
• To go down or rest on one or both knees.• Don’t kneel down frequently because it might give you
a image of no pride.
Inhalation
• process or act of breathing in, taking air and sometimes other substances into the lungs.
• The patient had a unsteady inhalation and hard time talking.
Hysterics
• Someone who is in a state of uncontrolled excitement, anger or panic.
• Hysteric patients are the people who have unpredictable and unsteady emotions.
Mimicking
• To follow or imitate others to be like them.
• I was mimicking my brother’s face whenever he wants mom to buy what he wants.
Radiates
• To form a certain pattern, To make heat or light come out
• Your thoughts and emotions radiates from your face. You look sad now. Tell me what happened.
Mourning
• A behaviour in which you show sadness about a person’s death.
• My friend was mourning of her grandmother’s death.
Aghast
• To be filled with horror and surprise.• I was aghasted when I saw the mice moving on the
floor.
Exploits
• To treat unfairly by using their work or ideas and giving a very little return.
• It is not right to exploit others works and ideas.
Faltered
• To lose power or strength in an uneven way or no longer makes much progress.
• I was faltered and exhausted after finishing the test.
Resemblance
• similarity in appearance or in external or superficial details
• Not only their appearance resembles, but their personality is similar too.
Divert
• To turn aside from a course or direction• Nothing could diver his thoughts from his mother’s
sudden death.
Clenching
• To curl fingers tightly or squeeze teeth together.
• I sometimes clench my teeth and fingers whenever I am extremely mad.
Grimacing
• To twist face in an ugly way because you are annoyed, disgusted, or in pain.
• Don’t make grimacing face in front of the audience
Underprivileged
• people who have less money and fewer possessions and opportunities than other people in their society.
• We can help underprivileged children in Christmas day by becoming santa.
Conformity
• Similarity in form or character; agreement
• Soldiers were in conformity with the same clothes and position.
Contempt
• The feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn.
• She showed Bob a contempt when he made a mistake.
Escort
• To protect, guide by accompanying another.
• I escorted an old man to the hospital.
Convinced
• To feel sure that is true.• I was convinced that he was in the part of the crime.
Delirious
• To be extremely excited and happy.• The park was filled with a crowd of delirious baseball
fans.
Indignantly
• shocked and angry, because you think that something is unjust or unfair.
• He acted indignantly to his friend when he noticed that his friend betrayed him.
Circumstances
• particular situation or the conditions which affect what happens.
• I have told you the circumstances, so you must act accordingly.
Acquitted
• formally declared not to have committed the crime.
• People knew the Bob was innocent. They were so happy to see Bob acquitted from the crime.
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