ELA 11 H: Marquez/Dello Russo
Into the Wild: Vocabulary for Chapters 5-10
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Chapter 5: Bullhead City
Denude (41): to make bare, to strip of covering.
Unkept (42): not combed, disheveled.
Rheumy (42): of or pertaining to a cold.
Turgid (44): stretched out by some expansive force, inflated, swollen.
Fatuous (44): foolish, silly.
Chapter 6: Anza Borrego
Hegira (48): a flight or exodus.
Snafu (48): glitch.
Harangue (51): a noisy, ranting speech.
Endemic (52): peculiar to a district or to a class of persons.
Dispel (59): to clear away, drive away by scattering.
Virulent (59): extremely poisonous, deadly.
Chapter 7: Carthage
Pathological (61): produced by disease.
Cant (61): a thrust that causes a change in direction.
Maw (61): the throat, gullet, or jaws.
Surfeit (62): an excess, superabundance.
Succor (66): aid, assistance, or relief.
Terse (68): elegantly concise, free of superfluous words.
Chapter 8: Alaska
Opprobrium (70): the disgrace that follows shameful behavior, infamy.
Strident (71): harsh-sounding, shrill.
Burlesque (72): literary, dramatic, or other mockery that purposely makes ridiculous that
which it is imitating.
Bumbling (72): to move, act, or proceed clumsily.
Recondite (72): hidden from site, concealed, or extremely difficult to understand.
Eremitic (73): a recluse or hermit, especially a religious recluse.
Transient (73): of short or uncertain duration.
Enigmatic (77): hard to understand, a puzzle.
Muster (79): to assemble, gather together.
Chapter 9: Davis Gulch
Petroglyphs (88): a carving or line drawing on rock, especially one made by prehistoric
people.
Pictoglyphs (88): a picture carved in a rock or other hard surface.
Nom de plume (89): pen name.
Callow (90): immature.
Atavistic (90): relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral:
"atavistic fears and instincts".