Into the Wild 3 (chapters 11-15)
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jburita on May 5, 2010
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test on 5/12
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English 3, Sophomore English, Freshmen 1P, Summer School
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| taciturn |  habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
| mercurial | liable to sudden unpredictable change |
| entrepreneurial | willing to take risks in order to make a profit |
| nuance | a slight or subtle degree of difference |
| inequities | unfair circumstances |
| incorrigible | incapable of being reformed |
| dollop | a small measure (usually of food) |
| monomania | obsession with one thing |
| clemency | leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice |
| choler | anger; bad tempered |
| sanctimonious | excessively or hypocritically pious |
| hypocrite | a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold |
| obliquely | in an indirect, evasive or misleading direction |
| anomalous | deviating from the general or common order or type |
| extemporaneous | improvised; done without preparation |
| insurrectionists | rebels |
| recalcitrant | marked by stubborn resistance to authority |
| delineating | outline; describing in detail |
| keening | a loud wailing |
| balks | to defeat, check, or stop as if by a barrier |
| fatuous | silly, foolish |
| melodramatic | overly emotional or sentimental |
| zeal | excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end |
| exfoliated | to strip off, especially to remove the surface of (a bone, skin, etc.) in scales or laminae |
| demarcates | set bounderies off. |
| reverie | (n.) a daydream; the condition of being lost in thought |
| desideratum | n. something needed and wanted |
| madrigal | song for several voices |
| extricated | having become freed from entanglement |
| recumbent | lying down |
| epiphany | a moment of sudden revelation or insight |
| volition | the act of making a choice; free will |
| meringue | a mixture of egg white and sugar beaten until stiff |
| perambulation | n. the act of walking through somewhere leisurely. |
| adamant | unyielding; firm in opinion |
| claustrophobic | exhibiting a fear of enclosed spaces |
| lacerations | jagged tears or cuts |
| massif | a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range |
| coppice | A thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs |
| feral | wild and menacing |
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