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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.
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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.
CHARITY 1. Provision of help or relief to the poor.2. Something given to help the needy.
MADRAS 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 • Impossible to resist • 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; disbelieving2. 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; incomprehensible2. Difficult or impossible to measure