Into the Wild: Vocabulary 5-10

Into the Wild: Vocabulary 5-10

<p>ELA 11 H: Marquez/Dello Russo Name: ______Into the Wild: Vocabulary for Chapters 5-10 Section:______</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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".</p>

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