INTO THE WILD: Chapter 1-2 Vocabulary
Directions: Define each word and come up with a picture or sentence using the word.
Muskeg:
Unsullied:
Sonorous:
Meander:
Spongy ground of
North America
not soiled,
untarnished
rich and full in
sound
to wander aimlessly
Flinty:
Escarpments:
Trough:
Amalgam:
A mixture or
combination
unyielding;
unmerciful;
a long, precipitous,
clifflike ridge of
land
a long, narrow, open
receptacle, usually
boxlike in shape, used
chiefly to hold water or
food for animals.
Antimony (claims):
Tending to develop
into crystals
Permafrost:
Derelict
oxidized:
(in arctic or subarctic
regions) perennially
frozen subsoil.
left or deserted, as by
the owner or guardian;
abandoned
Combine with
oxygen
Anomaly:
Subcutaneous:
Ramparts:
an odd, peculiar, or
strange condition,
situation, quality
situated or lying under
the skin, as tissue.
contumacious:
rebellious
a broad elevation
or mound of earth
INTO THE WILD: Chapter 3-4Vocabulary
Directions: Come up with a picture/sentence for each word.
Hyperkinetic: (adj)
Itinerant: (adj)
Rubber tramps: (n)
Leather Tramps: (n)
Increased muscular
movement
Traveling from place to
place, especially to perform
work
A person who lives in and
creeps around a vehicle that
looks like it is barely held
together with rubber bands.
A person who lives a
nomadic life but travels by
way of hitchhiking their
way across country.
Estranged: (v)
Nomadic: (adj)
Encumbered: (v)
Emancipated: (v)
To remove from an
accustomed place or set of
associations
A person with no fixed
residence who roams about.
To hinder of or impede the
action or performance of.; to
burden
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
INTO THE WILD: Chapter 5-6Vocabulary
Directions: Define each word and come up with a picture/sentence for each of them.
Lumpen:
Garrulous:
Denuded:
Anachronistic:
Hegira:
Desiccated:
Harangues:
Unalloyed:
INTO THE WILD: Chapter 7-8Vocabulary
Directions: Define each word and come up with a picture/sentence for each of them.
Ambled: to walk slowly
Surfeit:
Conjecture:
astute:
ambivalence:
opprobrium:
opined:
epistle:
recondite:
eremitic:
sodden:
banalities:
Petroglyphs:
n. A carving or line
drawing on rock, especially
one made by prehistoric
people.
emblazoned:
To inscribe (a prominent
marking) on a surface:
emblazon a cross on a
banner.
gulch:
n. deep, narrow ravine,
ephemeral:
maidenhair:
esp. one marking the
course of a stream or
torrent.
Adj. lasting a very short time;
short-lived; transitory
n. A type of fern; plant
insinuated:
to bring or introduce into
a position or relation by
indirect or artful methods:
to insinuate oneself into
favor.
Stratum:
Gaunt:
extremely thin and bony;
haggard and drawn, as from
great hunger, weariness, or
torture
INTO THE WILD: Chapter 11 Vocabulary
Directions: Define each word and come up with a picture/sentence for each of them.
Taciturn: (adj)
Scudding:
disinclined to talk
to move or run swiftly
especially as if driven forward
eminence: (n)
a position of prominence or
superiority
chastened: (transitive verb)
to cause to be more humble
or restrained
rapt: (adj)
Wholly absorbed
arcane: (adj)
Secret, mysterious
cadence: (n)
a falling inflection of the
voice
whence: (adv)
mercurial: (adj)
from what place, source, or
cause
characterized by rapid and
unpredictable changeableness
of mood
trajectory: (n)
vagaries:
Loathe: (transitive verb)
a path, progression, or line of
development
an erratic, unpredictable, or
extravagant manifestation,
action, or notion
to dislike greatly and often
with disgust or intolerance
INTO THE WILD: Chapter 11 & 12 Vocabulary
Directions: Define each word and come up with a picture/sentence for each of them.
rancor: (n).
Wanderlust: (n).
panache: (n).
apartheid: (n).
Separation
bitter deep-seated ill will
strong longing for or impulse
toward wandering
flamboyance in style and
action
ceded:
morass: (n)
Bristled:
Lenity:
anomalous:
lampooned:
a situation that traps, confuses,
or impede
sanctimonious:
indignation:
INTO THE WILD: Chapter 13 & 14 Vocabulary
Directions: Define each word and come up with a picture/sentence for each of them.
razzing: (transitive
verb)
Defiant of authority or
restraint
delineating: (verb)
To describe, portray,
set forth with accuracy
and detail
Fatuous (adj)
thrummed: (v)
Chutzpah: (n)
Silly
To recite tirelessly or
monotonously
Supreme selfconfidence
madrigal: (n)
demarcates: (V)
To set apart; distinguish
recalcitrant: (adj)
A lyrical poem
anorectic: (adj)
Lacking apetite
To laugh
contemptuously (with
little respect)
Bergschrund:
is a crevice that forms
where the moving
glacier ice separates
from the stagnant ice
above
INTO THE WILD: Chapter 15 Vocabulary
Directions: Define each word and come up with a picture/sentence for each of them.
environs: (n)
Surroundings; vicinity
conflagration: (n)
Fire
acrid: (transitive verb)
autocratic: (adj)
sharp and harsh or
unpleasantly pungent
in taste or odor
government in which one
person possesses unlimited
power
progeny (n)
Offspring; children
hectored: (v)
blithely: (adv)
Casual or lighthearted
disposition
Valise: (n)
suitcase
inundate: (V)
To overflow or
overwhelm
bivvy: (V)
To play the bully
ampoules: (n)
A glass vessel to hold
injection solutions
spindrift: (n)
fine wind-borne
snow or sand
INTO THE WILD: Chapter 15 & 16 Vocabulary
Directions: 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
Hubris: (n)
exaggerated pride
or self-confidence
abated: (verb)
To put an end to
crampons: (n)
bivouac: (n)
a climbing iron used
especially on ice and
snow in mountaineering
a temporary or
casual shelter or
lodging
INTO THE WILD: Chapter 17 & 18 Vocabulary
Directions: Define each word and come up with a picture/sentence for each of them.
topographic: (n)
unequivocally:
incapacitated:
conundrum:
coppice: (n)
Miasma: