Words to know
Great in size or scope
a. vacuum b. vast c. aloof d. racking
What is vast?
An appearance in front of a judge before a trial.
a. manslaughter b. hearing c. guardian c. vast
What is hearing?
The winners of this science award represent the _____________ of our high school.
a. idols b. elude c. elite d. aloof
What is elite?
If you poke a bear, you are _________ to get hurt.
a. flinch b. veer c. welled d. liable
What is liable?
The socs and the greasers had been fighting for years and couldn't reconcile their differences. Their _______________ led to a final rumble.
a. racking b. rivalry c. contemptuous d. apprehensiveness
What is rivalry?
Color: shade of a color
a. jet b. taut c. hue d. vacuum
What is hue?
Darry was appointed Soda and Pony's legal _______________ after their parents died in a car wreck.
a. guardian b. sage c. rogue d. rival
What is guardian?
The teacher was ______________ at how many of her students failed the simple test.
a. aghast b. ember c. unfathomable c. elude
What is aghast?
Darry said, "Yes, sir," looking straight at the judge, not _________________.
a. flinching b. acquitting c. abiding d. hearing
What is flinching?
Since the greasers lived on the poor side of town, the socs treated them with _________________.
a. rivalry b. aloof c. contempt
d. digestion
What is contemptuousness?
Pulled or drawn tight
a. brawn b. taut c. gingerly d. welled
What is taut?
Johnny would probably have been charged with ______________ after Bob's death because he didn't plan to kill him.
1. delinquent 2. vacuum 3. exploit 4. manslaughter
What is manslaughter?
The killer was able to __________ the police. They looked everywhere for him but he seemed to have vanished into thin air.
a. asset b. elude c. aloof d. ignore
What is elude?
He _____________ off to the right, but I caught him in a flying tackle before he'd gone more than a couple of steps.
1. flinching 2. veered 3. welled 4. vast
What is veered?
Dally glared with contempt at the policemen. There was challenge and ___________________ in his gaze.
a. incredulous b. vastness c. sullen d. defiance
What is defiance?
The Soc was ________ in a green and red madras shirt.
a. jet b. hue c. taut d. clad
What is clad?
Set free after evidence has been considered.
a. acquitted b. hearing c. subside d. liable
What is acquitted?
Johnny _______________ Dally. He was a big brother, a friend, and a mentor.
a. elude b. aloof c. abided d. idolized
What is idolized?
"You're not living in a ______________, Pony, and you're going to have to cut it out. Johnny and Dallas were our buddies, too, but you don't just stop living because you lose someone."
a. liable b. hearing. c. vast d. vacuum
What is vacuum?
The greasers ________________ continued to fight even though many of their gang were injured.
a. doggedly b. conviction c. detached d. sullenly
What is doggedly?
"As you and everyone else likes to remind me, I'm the ____________ not the brains," said Soda.
a. clad b. asset c. brawn d. jet
What is brawn
Pony Boy said, "Dally was a dead juvenile ____________ and there wouldn't be any editorials in his favor."
1. delinquent 2. rogue 3. asset 4. sage
What is delinquent?
Ms. Harris, our school principal, reminds us every morning the importance of _______________ by the school rules.
a. abiding b. assets c. acquitted
d. apprehensively
What is abiding?
I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did. It was too ___________ a problem to be just a personal thing.
a. vaccum b. liable c. vast d. guardian
What is vast?
Ponyboy looked ________________ yet resigned, as if he'd known this was coming.
a. diverting b. exploit c. faltered d. apprehensive
What is apprehensive?