The document defines and provides examples for various vocabulary words including madras, cowlick, unfathomable, savvy, aloof, impersonally, ornery, resignedly, ruefully, hermit, premonition, reluctantly, sullen, eluded, imploringly, gallant, indignant, testify, jolt, keeled, inhalation, hysterics, mimicking, radiates, mourning, aghast, exploits, faltered, resemblance, divert, clenching, grimacing, underprivileged, conformity, contempt, escort, convinced, delirious, indignantly, circumstances, and acquitted.

1. Vocab - The Outsiders Jane Chyun

2. Madras A cotton cloth of fine texture, usually with a plaid, striped, or checked pattern. I always wear my madras pants for pajama.

3. Cowlick A protecting tuft of hair on the head that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and will not lie flat. Nowadays, many teenage boys wants to cut their in cowlick style.

4. Unfathomable Difficult or impossible to understand and explain. Sea has unfathomable depth which can drive people into the water.

5. Savvy To have a good understanding and practical knowledge of something. She seems to be savvy and bright of all the lectures of Biology.

6. Aloof Person who is not very friendly and does not like to spend time with others. Because I didn’t wanted to get involved in fight, I stood aloof from their arguments.

7. Impersonally Lacking personality, not being a person. The boss acted impersonally to his niece when he made the small mistake.

8. Ornery Disagreeable and contrary in disposition with the personality of bad- tempered, difficult and mean. You will have hard time communicating and get along with ornery people.

9. Resignedly Voluntarily leave a job or other position. She resigned from his job when she had a baby.

10. Ruefully Causing or feeling pity or compassion. I felt ruefully about the animals dieing for the human’s cloth or food.

11. Hermit A person who has withdrawn from society and lives with a lonely existence. Hermit people are usually prisoners or the poors who were withdrawn from society.

12. Premonition The feeling that something is going to happen. I want to meet someone who can premonate my life and luck.

13. Reluctantly unwilling and hesitant, disinclined She reluctantly answered the question with the confused voice and look.

14. Sullen Showing a bad humor or silent and dark resentment. ( Gloomy or somber in tone and color) In most of the movies, there are sullen characters who scares or revenges people.

15. Eluded To evade or escape from by cleverness and skill. The mice eluded to the hole from the cat’s attack.

16. Imploringly To appeal and beg troublesomely urgent or persistent with entreat pressingly. The student bagged imploringly to her teacher for her make up test.

17. Gallant Behave bravely and honorably in a dangerous or difficult situation. I saw a gallant man who dived into the water to survive young girl.

18. Indignant To be shocked and angry because of it’s unjustness and unfairness. I feels indignant when people insults and tortures person without any reason.

19. Testify To support the belief that the second thing is true. The police testified the man who held a gun in his hand.

20. Jolt Push or shake abruptly and roughly He ran toward me and jolted me by slapping the head.

21. Keeled fall over, collapse Don’t keel down frequently because it might give you a image of no pride.

22. Inhalation process or act of breathing in, taking air and sometimes other substances into the lungs. The patient had a unsteady inhalation and hard time talking.

23. Hysterics Someone who is in a state of uncontrolled excitement, anger or panic. Hysteric patients are the people who have unpredictable and unsteady emotions.

24. Mimicking To follow or imitate others to be like them. I was mimicking my brother’s face whenever he wants mom to buy what he wants.

25. Radiates To form a certain pattern, To make heat or light come out Your thoughts and emotions radiates from your face. You look sad now. Tell me what happened.

26. Mourning A behaviour in which you show sadness about a person’s death. My friend was mourning of her grandmother’s death.

27. Aghast To be filled with horror and surprise. I was aghasted when I saw the mice moving on the floor.

28. Exploits To treat unfairly by using their work or ideas and giving a very little return. It is not right to exploit others works and ideas.

29. Faltered To lose power or strength in an uneven way or no longer makes much progress. I was faltered and exhausted after finishing the test.

30. Resemblance similarity in appearance or in external or superficial details Not only their appearance resembles, but their personality is similar too.

31. Divert To turn aside from a course or direction Nothing could diver his thoughts from his mother’s sudden death.

32. Clenching To curl fingers tightly or squeeze teeth together. I sometimes clench my teeth and fingers whenever I am extremely mad.

33. Grimacing To twist face in an ugly way because you are annoyed, disgusted, or in pain. Don’t make grimacing face in front of the audience

34. Underprivileged people who have less money and fewer possessions and opportunities than other people in their society. We can help underprivileged children in Christmas day by becoming santa.

35. Conformity Similarity in form or character; agreement Soldiers were in conformity with the same clothes and position.

36. Contempt The feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn. She showed Bob a contempt when he made a mistake.

37. Escort To protect, guide by accompanying another. I escorted an old man to the hospital.

38. Convinced To feel sure that is true. I was convinced that he was in the part of the crime.

39. Delirious To be extremely excited and happy. The park was filled with a crowd of delirious baseball fans.

40. Indignantly shocked and angry, because you think that something is unjust or unfair. He acted indignantly to his friend when he noticed that his friend betrayed him .

41. Circumstances particular situation or the conditions which affect what happens. I have told you the circumstances, so you must act accordingly.

42. Acquitted formally declared not to have committed the crime. People knew the Bob was innocent. They were so happy to see Bob acquitted from the crime. Text