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Vocab - The Outsiders

Jane Chyun

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Madras

• A cotton cloth of fine texture, usually with a plaid, striped, or checked pattern.

• I always wear my madras pants for pajama.

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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.

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Unfathomable

• Difficult or impossible to understand and explain.

• Sea has unfathomable depth which can drive people into the water.

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Savvy

• To have a good understanding and practical knowledge of something.

• She seems to be savvy and bright of all the lectures of Biology.

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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.

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Impersonally

• Lacking personality, not being a person.• The boss acted impersonally to his niece when he

made the small mistake.

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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.

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Resignedly

• To accept without complaining.• He is now resigned to his roomate’s noise and mess.

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Ruefully

• Causing or feeling pity or compassion.• I felt ruefully about the animals dieing for the human’s

cloth or food.

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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• A person who has withdrawn from society and lives with a lonely existence.

• Hermit people are usually prisoners or the poors who were withdrawn from society.

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Premonition

• The feeling that something is going to happen.

• I want to meet someone who can premonate my life and luck.

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Reluctantly

• Unwilling feelings that are marked and exhibited.

• She reluctantly made her face frown and refused to take a picture with me.

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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.

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Eluded

• To evade or escape from by cleverness and skill.

• The mice eluded to the hole from the cat’s attack.

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Imploringly

• To appeal and beg troublesomely urgent or persistent with entreat pressingly.

• The student bagged imploringly to her teacher for her make up test.

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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.

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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.

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Testify

• To support the belief that the second thing is true.

• The police testified the man who held a gun in his hand.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Hysterics

• Someone who is in a state of uncontrolled excitement, anger or panic.

• Hysteric patients are the people who have unpredictable and unsteady emotions.

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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.

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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.

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Mourning

• A behaviour in which you show sadness about a person’s death.

• My friend was mourning of her grandmother’s death.

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Aghast

• To be filled with horror and surprise.• I was aghasted when I saw the mice moving on the

floor.

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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.

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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.

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Resemblance

• similarity in appearance or in external or superficial details

• Not only their appearance resembles, but their personality is similar too.

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Divert

• To turn aside from a course or direction• Nothing could diver his thoughts from his mother’s

sudden death.

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Clenching

• To curl fingers tightly or squeeze teeth together.

• I sometimes clench my teeth and fingers whenever I am extremely mad.

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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

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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.

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Conformity

• Similarity in form or character; agreement

• Soldiers were in conformity with the same clothes and position.

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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.

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Escort

• To protect, guide by accompanying another.

• I escorted an old man to the hospital.

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Convinced

• To feel sure that is true.• I was convinced that he was in the part of the crime.

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Delirious

• To be extremely excited and happy.• The park was filled with a crowd of delirious baseball

fans.

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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.

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Circumstances

• particular situation or the conditions which affect what happens.

• I have told you the circumstances, so you must act accordingly.

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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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