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Vocabulary Insights from "The Outsiders": Key Terms and Meanings

Explore essential vocabulary from "The Outsiders" that enriches understanding of the story and its characters. This guide highlights key terms such as "gallant," "premonition," "guardian," and "sophisticated," providing definitions and contexts for their use. Learn about the significance of words like "aloofness," "irresistible," and "sarcasm" in conveying themes of bravery, emotional distance, and social dynamics. This vocabulary collection serves as a valuable resource for readers and students seeking to deepen their comprehension of the novel's language and character interactions.

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Vocabulary Insights from "The Outsiders": Key Terms and Meanings

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  1. The Outsiders Vocabulary

  2. GALLANT • Smartly or boldly stylish; dashing • unflinching in battle or action; brave • Noble • Courteously attentive especially to women; chivalrous.

  3. premonition 1. A presentiment of the future; a foreboding. 2. A warning in advance; a forewarning.

  4. GUARDIAN 1. One that guards, watches over, or protects. 2. One who is legally responsible for the care and management of the minor

  5. SOPHISTICATED 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. To make more complex; refine.

  6. CHARITY 1. Provision of help or relief to the poor.2. Something given to help the needy.

  7. MADRAS 1. A cotton cloth of fine texture, usually with a plaid, striped, or checked pattern.2. A silk, generally striped, cloth.

  8. ALOOFNESS 1: indifference by personal withdrawal; "emotional distance“ 2: a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner

  9. Irresistible • Impossible to resist • Having an overpowering appeal

  10. Gasp 1. To draw in the breath sharply, as from shock.

  11. sarcasm A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.

  12. ligament A sheet or band of tough, fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages at a joint or supporting an organ.

  13. incredulous  1. Skeptical; disbelieving2. Expressive of disbelief

  14. snarl 1. A tangled mass. 2. A confused, complicated, or tangled situation; a predicament.

  15. contemptuously without respect; in a disdainful manner

  16. unfathomable 1. Difficult or impossible to understand; incomprehensible2. Difficult or impossible to measure

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