Chapter 11&12 Vocab (Into the Wild) Flashcards by Zack White

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An opening

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Aperture

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Specialized and unusual; known to only a few

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Arcane

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Corrected, reformed

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Chastened

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Put together; made up

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Concocted

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Shaped like a cone

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Conical

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Characteristic of starting a business

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Entrepreneurial

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A crouched position used in skiing

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Gorilla tuck

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Spiral-shaped

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Helices

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Unwilling

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Loathe

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Changeable, as is the element mercury

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Mercurial

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A quagmire, bog

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Morass

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For the sake of appearances

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Ostensibly

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Style, flair

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Panache

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Bitterness

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Rancor

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Pushed by the wind

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Scudding

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Fighting

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Sparring

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Following the beliefs of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy

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Tolstoyan

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The path of a moving object through space

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Trajectory

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Uncertainties

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Vagaries

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Unusual; inconsistent

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Anomalous

Q

A desk in a library or other learning center

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Carrel

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Anger

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Choler

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Close friends

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Confrères

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Impromptu; done without planning

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Extemporaneous

A person who does or says one thing but or says something else

Hypocrite

Peculiar; unpredictable in style

Idiosyncratic

Being fixated on a single idea

Monomania

Allowing light to shine through

Pellucid

Falsely appearing holy or moral

Sanctimonious

Carefully

Scrupulously