He was very _________ of the new girl. He just didn't trust new people.
What is leery?
100
To stuff with food
What is gorge?
100
“Dally stood beside me quietly for a minute, trying to _____ the fact that we had really beaten the Socs” (145).
What is grasp?
100
Cool, carefree, and casually unconcerned, or seeming so.
What is nonchalant?
100
She felt very __________ about answering the question because she was unsure of the answer.
What is reluctant?
200
She was ______________ for a cup of coffee; she didn't think she would be able to make it throughout the day without it.
What is desperate?
200
To have a similarity to; be like
What is resemble?
200
“‘I’m just a little spooked, that’s all.’ I drew a ______ breath and quit crying” (8).
What is quiver?
200
To turn aside from a course or direction; swerve
What is veer?
200
She was __________ about the injustice of the situation.
What is indignant?
300
She was totally _______________ by the confusing question.
What is bewildered?
300
To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, bent posture; a lazy person
What is slouch?
300
“Then [the judge] said I was _______ and the whole case was closed” (168).
What is acquit?
300
Essential for the continuation of life; having great importance; essential
What is vital?
300
“Dally didn’t die a hero. He died violent and young and _________, just like we all knew he’d die someday” (154).
What is desperate?
400
“‘Work?’ Two-Bit was ________. ‘And ruin my rep?’” (112).
What is aghast?
400
An advance warning; a feeling that something is going to happen
What is premonition?
400
“Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an _____ to society the next” (3).
What is asset?
400
To shrink or start involuntarily, as in pain or distress
What is wince?
400
“We mostly stuck with our own outfits, so I was a little _______ of going over to him, but I shrugged” (139).
What is leery?
500
“‘Curly always said you were a good kid. Curly’s in the reformatory for the next six months.’ Tim grinned ________, probably thinking of his roughneck, hard-headed brother” (139).
What is rueful(ly)?
500
The best or superior to members of a society or group
What is elite?
500
“I was trying to find the meaning the poet had in mind, but it _______ me” (78).
What is elude?
500
An advance warning; a feeling that something is going to happen
What is premonition?
500
“[Cherry] gave [Dally] an _________ look; and then she threw her Coke in his face” (24).