INTO THE WILD: Chapter 1-2 Vocabulary.

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INTO THE WILD Chapter 1-2 Vocabulary.
Muskeg (n) A part of North America Unsullied not stained or tarnished Sonorous deep and full Meander to proceed to take an indirect course
Flinty resembling steel Escarpments a cliff-like ridge of rock Trough a long, narrow shape to hold water Amalgam a metal
Antimony (claims) a white metallic element Permafrost ground that is permanently frozen Derelict left or abandoned by owner oxidized combined with oxygen
Anomaly a deviation from the norm Subcutaneous underneath the skin contumacious disobedient Ramparts a broad elevation of earth
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INTO THE WILD Chapter 3-4VocabularyDirections
Come up with a picture/sentence for each word.
Hyperkinetic (adj) Increased muscular movement Itinerant (adj) Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work Rubber tramps (n) A person who lives in and creeps around a vehicle that looks like it is barely held together with rubber bands. Leather Tramps (n) A person who lives a nomadic life but travels by way of hitchhiking their way across country.
Estranged (v) To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations Nomadic (adj) A person with no fixed residence who roams about. Encumbered (v) To hinder of or impede the action or performance of. to burden Emancipated (v) To free from bondage or restraint to release (a child) from the control of a parent or guardian.
Amphibious (adj) Able to operate on both land and water
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INTO THE WILD Chapter 5-6VocabularyDirections
Define each word and come up with a
picture/sentence for each of them.
Lumpen uprooted individuals Garrulous excessively talking Denuded to make naked or bare Anachronistic out of order/date
Hegira a flight or journey to a more desirable place Desiccated dehydrated or powdered Harangues a long verbal attack Unalloyed to not be mixed with other metals

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INTO THE WILD Chapter 7-8VocabularyDirections
Define each word and come up with a
picture/sentence for each of them.
Ambled to walk slowly Surfeit an excessive amount Conjecture the expression of an opinion without evidence astute sharp or clever
ambivalence uncertainty or fluctuation opprobrium disgrace from disrespectful behavior opined to hold an opinion epistle a formal letter
recondite dealing with a difficult subject eremitic someone who doesnt want to be around others sodden soaked with liquids banalities without originality
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Chapter 7 8 Vocabulary Continued
Petroglyphs  n.  A carving or line drawing on rock, especially one made by prehistoric people. gulch n. deep, narrow ravine, esp. one marking the course of a stream or torrent. ephemeral Adj. lasting a very short time short-lived transitory maidenhair n. A type of fern plant
emblazoned To inscribe (a prominent marking) on a surface emblazon a cross on a banner. insinuated to bring or introduce into a position or relation by indirect or artful methods to insinuate oneself into favor. Stratum a layer of artificial material Gaunt extremely thin and bony haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture
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INTO THE WILD Chapter 11 VocabularyDirections
Define each word and come up with a
picture/sentence for each of them.
Taciturn (adj) disinclined to talk Scudding to move or run swiftly especially as if driven forward rapt (adj) Wholly absorbed arcane (adj) Secret, mysterious
eminence (n) a position of prominence or superiority cadence (n) a falling inflection of the voice whence (adv) from what place, source, or cause mercurial (adj) characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood
chastened (transitive verb) to cause to be more humble or restrained trajectory (n) a path, progression, or line of development vagaries an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion Loathe (transitive verb) to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance
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INTO THE WILD Chapter 11 12 VocabularyDirectio
ns Define each word and come up with a
picture/sentence for each of them.
rancor (n). bitter deep-seated ill will Wanderlust (n). strong longing for or impulse toward wandering panache (n). flamboyance in style and action apartheid (n). Separation
ceded to surrender morass (n) a situation that traps, confuses, or impede Bristled stiff hairs on an animal Lenity a state of being mild
sanctimonious making a hypocritical show of religious devotion indignation strong displeasure in something considered unjust anomalous straying from the normal lampooned
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INTO THE WILD Chapter 13 14 VocabularyDirectio
ns Define each word and come up with a
picture/sentence for each of them.
recalcitrant (adj) Defiant of authority or restraint delineating (verb) To describe, portray, set forth with accuracy and detail razzing (transitive verb) To laugh contemptuously (with little respect) anorectic (adj) Lacking apetite
Fatuous (adj) Silly thrummed (v) To recite tirelessly or monotonously Chutzpah (n) Supreme self-confidence Bergschrund is a crevice that forms where the moving glacier ice separates from the stagnant ice above
madrigal (n) A lyrical poem demarcates (V) To set apart distinguish
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INTO THE WILD Chapter 15 VocabularyDirections
Define each word and come up with a
picture/sentence for each of them.
environs (n) Surroundings vicinity conflagration (n) Fire acrid (transitive verb) sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor autocratic (adj) government in which one person possesses unlimited power
progeny (n) Offspring children hectored (v) To play the bully blithely (adv) Casual or lighthearted disposition Valise (n) suitcase
ampoules (n) A glass vessel to hold injection solutions spindrift (n) fine wind-borne snow or sand inundate (V) To overflow or overwhelm bivvy a tent easy to pitch
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INTO THE WILD Chapter 15 16 VocabularyDirectio
ns Define each word and come up with a
picture/sentence for each of them.
calamitous (adj) causing a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering abated (verb) To put an end to crampons (n) a climbing iron used especially on ice and snow in mountaineering bivouac (n) a temporary or casual shelter or lodging
Hubris (n) exaggerated pride or self-confidence

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INTO THE WILD Chapter 17 18 VocabularyDirectio
ns Define each word and come up with a
picture/sentence for each of them.
topographic (n) the detail mapping of features of a small area unequivocally not clear coppice (n) corpse Miasma germs polluting the atmosphere
incapacitated unable to act or respond conundrum a riddle in which the answer involves a pun