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Week 28 The Outsiders- S.E. Hinton- Chapters 1-2

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  1. asset
    a useful or valuable quality
    I mean, at some level working headlights are more liability than asset, especially if you’re worried about being eaten. Slate (Sep 16, 2013)
  2. disgrace
    a state of dishonor
    The disgraced politician was once seen as a possible presidential candidate.
  3. inspection
    a formal or official examination
    Results will be published about a month after each inspection.
  4. dazed
    stunned or confused and slow to react
    I was dazed, but went about my business.
  5. sensitive
    being susceptible to the attitudes or feelings of others
    Dogs are uniquely sensitive to human social communicative cues. Scientific American (Sep 18, 2013)
  6. sympathetic
    expressing compassion or friendly fellow feelings
    Even people who are sympathetic sometimes struggle to support unions.
  7. vacant
    not containing anyone or anything; unfilled or unoccupied
    The parking lots, across from either terminal, are mostly vacant.
  8. wisecrack
    a witty or sarcastic remark
    We’re talking about wisecracks, jokes, attitude, addressing you by name.
  9. unfathomable
    impossible to come to understand
    He previously dreamt of working in the government, a goal now unfathomable.
  10. grudge
    a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
    The grudge between the two goes back many years.
  11. reputation
    the general estimation that the public has for a person
    More damaging, perhaps, were the attacks on his scientific reputation.
  12. sage
    having wisdom that comes with experience
    In fact, the sage advice in Saunders’s address has gone viral, spreading across the Internet on blogs,Twitter and Facebook.
  13. rogue
    a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
    The four rogue investigators concerned were given jail sentences last year.
  14. ligament
    a band of fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages
    Cooper said Wednesday he is “over the hump” after three anterior cruciate ligament tears in his knees derailed his once-promising career. Seattle Times (Aug 28, 2013)
  15. wince
    draw back, as with fear or pain
    In fact, the real pain has scarcely begun in France, though like a patient going in for surgery everyone is wincing in anticipation.
  16. incredulous
    not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving
    “Our campus is pretty compact, but there’s now a bicycle-taxi service,” he said, sounding slightly incredulous.
  17. nonchalantly
    in a composed and unconcerned manner
    It was teeming with people nonchalantly pretending to look at stuff.
  18. scatterbrained
    lacking sense or discretion
    Consider Evernote, the storage service that let scatterbrained people keep track of all the interesting things they found online every day.
  19. feud
    a bitter quarrel between two parties
    Distracted by sectarian attacks and political feuding, the government has done little to improve education, housing and other infrastructure.
  20. rumble
    a street fight between rival groups
    These days, the police are gone, the coca is plentiful and locals close off roads for multiday block parties—not rumbles with law enforcement. Wall Street Journal (Jan 13, 2012)
  21. rebellious
    resisting control or authority
    Inventing new words is one of the most rebellious things you can do.
Created on Wed Sep 18 17:26:54 EDT 2013 (updated Mon Apr 11 14:20:19 EDT 2016)

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