The Outsiders Ch. 1-6 Vocabulary

"I touched my cheek gingerly" (Hinton 12).

"She gave him an incredulous look; and then she threw her Coke in his face" (Hinton 24).

"I digested that. It was true" (Hinton 34).

"He likes fights, blondes, and for some unfathomable reason, school" (Hinton 10).

"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 asset to society the next" (Hinton 3).

"Dally grinned roguishly. 'I'm never nice'" (Hinton 22).

"'Okay,' I said nonchalantly, 'might as well'" (Hinton 25).

"Two-Bit nodded sagely. 'Nice cut, too. Makes you look tough" (Hinton 12).

"Oh, there are a few gangs around, like the River Kings and the Tiber Street Tigers, but here in the Southwest there's no gang rivalry" (Hinton 11).

"And Johnny, who was the most law-abiding of us, now carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade" (Hinton 34).

"Socs were always behind a wall of aloofness, careful not to let their real selves show through" (Hinton 38).

"He was pretty well crocked, which made me apprehensive. If Dally was drunk and in a dangerous mood..." (Hinton 59).

"Oh, shoot, kid' -- Dally glanced contemptuously over his shoulder -- 'I was in the bedroom'" (Hinton 59).

"Yet in his hard face there was character, pride, and a savage defiance of the world" (Hinton 59).

"'And,' Two-Bit added grimly, 'a few other of the socially elite checkered-shirt set" (Hinton 41).

"I saw Johnny's cigarette glowing in the dark and wondered vaguely what it was like inside a burning ember..." (Hinton 47).

"But this church gave me a kind of creepy feeling. What do you call it? Premonition?" (Hinton 67)

"'Well,' Cherry said resignedly, 'they've spotted us'" (Hinton 44).

"'Yessir.' I managed to look sheepish. 'We're playing army and I'm supposed to report to headquarters there" (Hinton 65).

"We're sophisticated -- cool to the point of not feeling anything" (Hinton 38).

"'I was scared,' Johnny said with conviction. 'I still am'" (Hinton 89).

"I should be scared, I thought with an odd detached feeling, but I'm not" (Hinton 92).

"'My parents,' Johnny repeated doggedly, 'did they ask about me?'" (Hinton 88)

"I was trying to find the meaning the poet had in mind, but it eluded me" (Hinton 78).

"Nature's first green is gold/Her hardest hue to hold" (Hinton--quoting Robert Frost 77).

"I looked at Johnny imploringly" (Hinton 72).

"He was stroking my hair and I could hear the sobs racking him as he fought to keep back the tears" (Hinton 98).

"Then leaf subsides to leaf" (Hinton--quoting Robert Frost 77).

"I leaned back next to him sullenly. 'I guess so'" (Hinton 73).

"'Gee,' Johnny said wistfully, 'it sure will be good to get into a car again'" (Hinton 82).