Into the Wild List 2
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ceisenhard34 on December 17, 2010
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25 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 jubilant | extremely joyful |
| perfunctory | done routinely and with little interest or care |
| primordial | existing at the beginning |
| bourgeois | characteristic of middle class |
| affinity | an attraction between two people |
| sedentary | characterized by much sitting |
| fatuous | stupid |
| espoused | to support as an idea |
| recluse | someone withdrawn from society |
| brash | tending to act without thinking |
| bereavement | a state of grieving |
| surfeit | an excess of quantity of something |
| astute | clever |
| chaste | virgin |
| ambivalence | contradictory attitudes that a person feels at the same time |
| succor | rescue |
| opprobrium | public disgrace |
| hubris | excessive pride |
| subsist | to survive |
| copious | abundant |
| affable | pleasant |
| paucity | scarcity |
| disdain | feeling of contempt for what is beneath a person |
| insolence | rudeness |
| loath | unwilling to do something not wanted |
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