Into The Wild Vocabulary Flashcards
(40 cards)
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Anomaly
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Something out of the ordinary
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Aesthetic
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Anyone who appreciates beauty in nature
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Asceticism
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Life that eliminates anything worldly
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Beatific
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Saintly
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Bourgeois
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Middle class
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Castigated
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Punish
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Choler
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Anger
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Convivial
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Friendly
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Desiccated
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Dehydrated
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Emetic
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Causes vomiting
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Emulating
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Copying
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Endemic
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Wide spread
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escarpments
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Steep slopes
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Existential
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A mindset that emphasizes personal freedom
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Extemporaneous
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To improvise
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Feckless
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Incompetent
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Fulmination
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Verbal attack
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Harangues
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Scolding or angry speech; sermon
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Hauteur
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Arrogance
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Idiosyncratic
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Reacting to a specific characteristic to a particular person
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Incorrigible
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Uncontrollable; incapable of change
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Indigent
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Poor
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Insidiously
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Causing harm in a sneaky way
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Itinerant
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Traveling
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Lumpen
Boring
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Mercurial
Changeable
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Modicum
Small amount
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Monomania
Self obsession
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Narcissist
Someone who is in love with themselves
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Perambulation
To walk around
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Peregrinations
Travels
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Plebeian
Commoner; crude
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Posited
To out forward as a truth
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Sanctimonious
Showing moral superiority
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Sobriquet
Humorous nickname
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Sojourn
Temporary stay
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Taiga
Subarctic forest
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Transcendent
Beyond our senses
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Unalloyed
Pure
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Wanderlust
Strong desire to travel
