The Outsiders Vocabulary GALLANT Smartly or boldly stylish

The Outsiders Vocabulary

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

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

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

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

CHARI TY 1. Provision of help or relief to the poor. 2. Something given to help the needy.

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

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

Irresistible 1. Impossible to resist 2. Having an overpowering appeal

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

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.

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

incredulous 1. Skeptical; disbelieving 2. Expressive of disbelief

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

contemptuously without respect; in a disdainful manner

unfathomable 1. Difficult or impossible to understand; incomprehensible 2. Difficult or impossible to measure