Chapters 1 &2
Things that are highly unusual, uncommon, or hard to find
What are rarities?
The state of being emotionally distant, detached, or unapproachable.
What is aloofness?
Acting in a gloomy, resentful, or silently bad-tempered way.
What is Sullenly?
Troubled, working-class youth who break societal rules or laws.
What are Delinquents?
A state of severe mental confusion characterized by rambling speech, hallucinations, and disconnection from reality.
What is Delirious?
A section or tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and resists being combed flat.
What is a Cowlick?
To act visibly disrespectful to someone that is viewed as worthless or beneath.
What is Contemptuously?
Escaped the understanding of or grasp of.
What is Eluded
To distract or draw someone’s attention away from something.
What is Divert?
The feeling or attitude of being better or more important than someone else.
What is Superiority?
To trick, coerce, or force someone into doing something, going somewhere, or taking part in an activity against their will.
What is Shanghaiing?
A correctional facility for young people who have broken the law.
What is Reformatory?
To give evidence or make a formal statement about what one saw or knows to be true, specifically as a witness in a court of law.
What is Testify?
To be struck with overwhelming shock, horror, amazement, or sudden fright.
What is Aghast?
Adopting behaviors, appearances, and values of a specific social group to fit in and gain acceptance.
What is Conformity?
Being unwilling or unable to believe something.
What is incredulous?
Accepting an unpleasant or inevitable situation without complaint or resistance.
What is Resignedly?
To fall over, collapse, or faint.
What is Keeled?
To hesitate, stumble, or speak unsteadily.
What is Faltered?
Double Bonus: Not in these chapters: To run or move with a long, relaxed, and easy stride.
What is Loping?
Acting in a playfully mischievous or cheeky manne
What is roguishly?
To be so shocked, astonished, or amazed that a person is left completely speechless and unable to react immediately.
What is Dumbfounded?
An unshakable belief in something without need for proof.
What is Conviction?
Times 4 Bonus: Not in these chapters: A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing.
What is Asset?
Triple Bonus: Not in this Chapter: To pull or jerk something upward with a quick motion.
What is Hitched