Outsiders vocab, word set #1
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- contemptuously
- an intense feeling of disrespect or dislike
- unfathomable
- impossible to comprehend or understand
- gallantly
- chivalrously; gentlemanly
- reformatory
- a correctional institution for juvenile delinquents
- smoldering
- showing an almost burning anger
- nonchalantly
- casually; coolly; in an unconcerned manner
- bewildering
- being perplexed or disoriented, especially by many different things
- ruefully
- expressing a feeling of regret or sorrow
- asset
- something valuable
- defiance
- a hostile attitude
- winced
- a reflexive facial expression of sudden pain
- incredulous
- skeptically; disbelievingly
- shanghaiing
- taking someone against his will for compulsory service, often on a ship
- allusion
- a reference, often to a work or art or literature
- stricken
- struck by something; emotionally shocked
- roguishly
- rascally; devilishly; lacking principles or scruples
- bleakly
- with little or no hope
- premonition
- a warning for the future; foreboding and intuitive sense of dread
- bickering
- quarreling about minor, petty points
- elite
- selected as the best; a group enjoying superior social status
- aloofness
- distant and unsympathetic; indifferent by personal withdrawal
- ornery
- cantankerous; having a stubborn, disagreeable, contrary disposition