Into the Wild Vocabulary – Flashcards
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affluent
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wealthy, well-off
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transcendent
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beyond our senses and experience
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peregrinations
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travels
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emulating
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copying
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asceticism
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a life that seeks to eliminate worldly
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Narcissist
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someone in love with himself/herself
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congenial
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friendly
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escarpments
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steep slopes
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antimony
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a metallic element
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anomaly
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glitch, inconsistency, out of the ordinary
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contumacious
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rebellious
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visage
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face
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amiable
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good-natured, friendly
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convivial
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sociable
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plebeian
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crude, common
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mien
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appearance
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onerous
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troublesome, dangerous
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egress
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going out
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indolently
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lazy, inactive
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saline
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salty
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sere
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withered, dry
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bourgeois
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middle class
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lumpen
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displaced people, misfits of society
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itinerant
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traveling
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primordial
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primal, basic form of development
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fatuous
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satisfied and stupid
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sedentary
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sitting, still, not moving
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Tolstoy
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a Russian author and philosopher who believed in self-sacrifice, non-violence, and finding happiness from within
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Thoreau
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an American writer, poet, and philosopher who believed in simple living and personal freedom
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hegira
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flight
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creosote
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an oily liquid
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desiccated
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dried
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phantasmal
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ghostly
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arroyo
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gorge
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indigent
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poor
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destitute
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poor
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serape
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poncho
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harangues
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sermon
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fulmination
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a verbal attack
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endemic
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widespread
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unalloyed
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pure
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unbidden
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not asked
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mercurial
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quick and changeable
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wanderlust
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a strong impulse to travel
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incorrigible
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uncontrollable, incapable of being reformed
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monomania
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obsessed with one idea
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sanctimonious
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self-righteous
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choler
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anger
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sullen
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brooding, angry
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idiosyncratic
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distinctive, individual
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castigated
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punished
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extemporaneous
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with no preparation or forethought, "off the cuff"
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gloaming
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dusk
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Rubicon
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point of no return
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aesthetic
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appreciates beauty in nature
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perambulation
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a walk around a boundary in order to patrol its borders
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taiga
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subarctic forest
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reverie
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dream
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obliquely
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indirectly
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ford
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shallow place to cross a river
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miasma
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cloud
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malevolent
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mean, angry, evil
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massif
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connected mountains
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ungulate
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hoofed animal
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moldering
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rotting
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scabbard
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sheath or case, usually for a weapon
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maxillae
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jawbones
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hauteur
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arrogance
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metis
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people of Indian and French-Canadian descent
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sobriquet
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humorous nickname
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ruminations
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reflections, thoughts on the past
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modicum
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small amount
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feckless
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incompetent, not fit to assume responsibility
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posited
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put forward as truth
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sojourn
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short break, to stay somewhere for a short time
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existential
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creating meaning through experience because life has no real meaning; this mindset emphasizes personal freedom and responsibility
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munificence
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bounty, plenty
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eloquence
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expressive speech
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precipitous
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abrupt, extremely steep
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decumbent
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growing along the ground
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emetic
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causes vomiting
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insidiously
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causing harm in a sneaky way
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moniker
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name
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conflagration
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fire
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beatific
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saintly
