Into The Wild
Vocabulary Unit
Chapters 1-3
Period Five
Instructions:
Your partner/small group will add the following
information to the slide for your vocabulary word:
1. The part of speech
2. Definition of your word (you may use dictionary.com)
3. Include the original sentence from Into The Wild where
your word is used.
4. Write your own sentence using the word.
5. Include an image that will help you and your classmates
remember the word.
Once everyone is done, you will teach your word to the
class using the slide that you created.
Sonorous
(Eliza & Nathan)
(SOH-NOWR-US)
Adj.
(of a person's voice or other sound) imposingly deep and full.
The sound that rang out of the Yeti's mouth was low and
sonorous, it was enough to chill the bones of any human.
"People from Outside," reports Gallien in a slow, sonorous
drawl, "They'll pick up a copy of Alaska magazine, thumb
through it, get to thinkin' 'Hey i'm goin' to get on up there, live
off the land, go claim me a piece of the good life."
Congenial
(Dmitriy & Kyle)
Definition: agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or c
haracter
Part of speech: adjective
Book sentence: He was congenial and seemed well
educated
Sentence: congenial surroundings seemed calm and
quiet
(Delete this reminder when you're done) Please include: 1. Part of speech 2. Definition 3. The original sentence from Into The
Wild where your word is used. 4. Write your own sentence using the word. 5. Include an image to help everyone remember
Dissuade
(Emily & Eric)
Definition:
To deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do so
mething (often followed by from ): She dissuaded him f
rom leaving home.
Original sentence: Gallien thought the hichhicker's
scheme was foolhardy and tried repreatedly to dissuade
him: " I said the hunting wasn't easy where he was
going, that he could go for days without killing any
game.
Speech: The word Dissuade is a verb.
Own sentence: I will dissuade him not to do it.
(Delete this reminder when you're done) Please include: 1. Part of speech
2. Definition 3. The original sentence from Into The
Wild where your word is used. 4. Write your own sentence using the word. 5. Include an image to help everyone remember
Amalgam
(Ryan & Joey)
1. noun
2. a mixture or combination: His character is a strange
amalgam of contradictory traits.
3. Jon Krakauer's character Alex in the book " Into The Wild"
has a strange amalgam.
4. Between the flinty crests of the two outermost escarpments
of the outer range runs an east-west through, maybe five miles
across, carpeted in a boggy amalgam of muskeg, alder
thickets, and veins of scrawny spruce.
(Delete this reminder when you're done) Please include: 1. Part of speech 2. Definition 3. The original sentence from Into The
Wild where your word is used. 4. Write your own sentence using the word. 5. Include an image to help everyone remember
Derelict
(Stewart & Veronica)
Definition:
In a very poor condition as a result of disuse and neglect.
A person without a home, job, or property.
Shamefully negligent in not having done what one should have done
New Sentence:
The escaped convict was found by the police in the nearbyderelict
house.
Original sentence: Adjective
A vintage international harvester from 1940's, the derelict vehicle is
located twenty-five miles west of healy as the raven flies.
(Delete this reminder when you're done) Please include: 1. Part of speech 2. Definition 3. The original sentence from Into The
Wild where your word is used. 4. Write your own sentence using the word. 5. Include an image to help everyone remember
Cursory
(David & Charlie)
-adjective
hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed
The troopers made a cursory examination of the vehicle and it's
environs of the signs of foul play and then departed.
the G-slack took a cursory glance at the newspaper article
Hyperkinetic (Michael & Derek)
Parts of Speech: Adjective of hyperkinesis
Definition: A disorder occurring in children and adolescents,characterized by
excessive activity, extreme restlessness,impulsivity, and a short attention span.
Sentence from the Book: Westerberg, a hyperkinetic man with thick shoulders
and a black goatee, owns a grain elevator in Carthage and another one a few
miles out of town but spends every summer running a custom combine crew
follows the harvest from Texas north to the Canadian border.
New Sentence: There was a very hyperkinetic person at the pool.
Itinerant (Avonna & De’Carl)
Speech-Adjective
Definition-Traveling from place to place,especially on circuit
New Sentence-The itinerant evangelist is in China.
Original sentence- The itinerant campers went to the Alps for a
a bonfire.
Surrogate
(Kirsten & Jason)
Part of speech- noun, adjective, verb [n., adj. sur-uh-geyt, -git,
suhr-; v. sur-uh-geyt, suhr-]Definition- Regarded or acting as a
surrogate: a surrogate fatherOriginal sentence- "If McCandless
felt estranged from his parents and siblings, he found a
surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees, most of
whom lived in Westerberg's Carthage home." New sentenceThe woman decides to be a surrogate mother to a woman who
could not conceive a baby.
Eminent (Toni & Tom)
Part of speech: Adj.
Definition: of high rank, station;
or quality; note worthy
Original sentence: His father, Walt,
is an eminent aerospace engineer who
designed advanced radar
New sentence: The eminent soldier was
greatly remembered.
Into The Wild Chap. 4-6 Vocabulary
Period 5
Query (plural- queries)
David Capobianco
Charles Hughes
-Noun
-A Question
mental reservation; doubt.
- "Truthful responses to these queries were not likely to be well
received by the rangers." - (pg.28 Into the Wild)
- Mr. Veres said queries could not be answered until Monday.
Statute (plural- statutes)
NOUN
an enactment made by a legislature and
expressed in a formal document.
"McCandless could endeavor to explain that he
answered to statutes of a higher order"
That statute that was passed last week could be better suited to the
United States.
Credo
Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: any creed or formula of belief.
Original Sentence: ...Telling the truth was a credo he took
seriously.
New Sentence: Treating others the way you want to be treated was a
credo he believed in strongly.
Derek & Michael
Vagabond
Nathan Cozad, Eliza Bishop
Noun
a person who wanders from place to place without a home or
job.
McCandless tramped around the West for the next two months,
spellbound by the scale and power of the landscape, thrilled by
minor brushes with the law, savoring the intermittent company
of other vagabonds he met along the way.
The Vagabonds of California gradually drift East toward the
Atlantic Ocean until they reach New Jersey to sell their goods
they've collected over the years; then returning to California to
start the cycle over again.
Contempt
Jason and Kirsten
Part of speech- noun
Definition- the feeling with which a person regards anything
considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn. The state
of being despised; dishonor; disgrace.
Book sentence- On the face of it, Bullhead City doesn't seem
like the kind of place that would appeal to an adherent of
Thoreau and Tolstoy, an ideologue who expressed nothing
contempt for the bourgeois trapping of mainstream America.
New sentence- I am feeling contempt with this I pod.
Destitute
Avonna
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition: Without means of subsistence;
lacking food, clothing, and shelter.
Sentence form book: The Slabs functions as the seasonal
capital of a teeming itinerant society-a tolerant, rubber-tired
culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the
perpetually unemployed. (pg43)
New sentence: The poor people were destitute because they
had no shelter, food, or clothing.
Recluse
Emilie and Eric
•  Noun
•  A person who lives in seclusion or apart from society,
often for religious meditation.
•  Burres makes it clear that he was no recluse:
Indelible
Speech- Adjective
Definition- Making marks that cannot be erased,removed
New sentence- The New York subways have graffiti that is
indelible.
Original Sentence- "McCandless made an indelible impression
on a number of people...."
Sedentary - Ryan and stewart
adjective
characterized by or requiring a sitting posture: a sedentary occupation.
"McCandless conveniently overlooked the fact that London himself had spent just
a single winter in the North and that he'd died by his own hand on his California
estate at the age of forty, a fatuous drunk, obese and pathetic, maintaining a
sedentary exisence that bore scant resemblance to the ideals he espoused in
print"
The guy across the street always had a sedentary lifestyle.
Astute
Tom and Toni
Part of speech: Adj.
Definition: Clever, cunning, ingenious; shrewed
Book sentence: Westerberg's latter conjecture, as it turned out,
was a fairly astute analysis of the relationship between Chris and
Walt McCandless.
New sentence: A person who studies history is very astute.