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IntotheWild8-15vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| hubris " McCandless... freezes because he ignores advice and commits big-time hubris" | Excessive pride/self confidence |
| requisite "screwing up because they lacked the requisite humility" | Something necessary/required in order for a specified thing |
| Humility "screwing up because they lacked the requisite humility" | A modest or low view of one’s one importance |
| contrived "McCandless's contrived asceticism and a pseudoliterary stance compound rather than reduce the fault." | Created or brought about |
| Asceticism "McCandless's contrived asceticism and a pseudoliterary stance compound rather than reduce the fault." | Severe-self discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence |
| theatrics "Alaska is 'not the best site in the world for eremitic experiments or peace-love theatrics.'" | Dramatic performances |
| Compulsive "Rosellini also exercised compulsively whenever he wasn't occupied with foraging" | resulting/relating to an irresistible urge |
| copious "He'd take copious notes, creating a complete record of everything he did during the course of each day" | Abundant in supply/quantity |
| circuitous "which entailed walking 160 hard, circuitous miles" | Longer than the most direct way |
| Labyrinth "straight through a labyrinth of giant crevasses, evidence that he had made no apparent effort to circumvent obvious hazards." | Complicated irregular network of passages/a maze |
| Flamboyant "But there was a side to him that was a little bit dreamy, a little bit out of touch with reality. He was flamboyant." | Tending to attract attention because of exuberance, confidence, and stylishness |
| Ephemeral "The ephemeral bloom of a sego lily peeks from the toe of a ninety-foot stone arch" | Lasting for a very short time |
| overwrought "who was sufficiently charmed by the overwrought young man to humor him" | In a state of nervous excitement or anxiety |
| taciturn "Samuel Walter McCandless, Jr.... is a bearded, taciturn man" | Quiet, untalkative |
| Mercurial "According to members of the extended family, his moods can be dark and mercurial" | Subject to unpredictable changes of mood/mind |
| nuance "Nuance, strategy, and anything beyond the rudimentaries of technique were wasted on Chris" | subtle differences |
| inequities "McCandless took life's inequities to heart." | Lack of fairness/justice |
| Sanctimonious "Chris would fixate on his father's own less than sterling behavior many years earlier and silently denounce him as a sanctimonious hypocrite." | Making a show of being morally superior to other people |
| Hypocrite "Chris would fixate on his father's own less than sterling behavior many years earlier and silently denounce him as a sanctimonious hypocrite." | Someone who says one thing but does another |
| obliquely "He chose instead to make a secret of his dark knowledge and express his rage obliquely, in silence and sullen withdrawal." | Indirectly |
| extemporaneous "Chris took his Datsun on another prolonged, extemporaneous road trip" | Done without preparation, impromptu |
| Zeal "Chris, she confesses, used to poke fun at her capitalist zeal" | Great energy or enthusiasm for a cause/objective |
| Demarcates "The Devils Thumb demarcates the Alaska-British Columbia border east of Petersburg" | Lines, surrounds, sets the boundaries of |
| penitent "Staggering slowly up the glacier beneath my overloaded pack, bearing this ridiculous metal cross, I felt like an odd sort of penitente" | Remorseful/a member of a religious society of Flagellants (self-punishers) |
| inebriated "To a self-possessed young man inebriated with the unfolding drama of his own life, all of this held enormous appeal." | Drunk, intoxicated |
| Phantasmagoria "dropping seaward through a gap between two mountains in a phantasmagoria of shattered ice" | Sequence of real/imaginary events like those seen in a dream |
| madrigal "My efforts were lent a sense of urgency by the noises emanating from beneath my feet. A madrigal of creaks and sharp reports" | a part-song for several voices |
| extricated "the poles kept me out of the hundred-foot crevasse, but after I extricated myself, I bent double with dry heaves" | Free from a constraint/difficulty |
| recumbent "I spent most of my time recumbent in the tent" | Lying down |
| Epiphany "But this epiphany occurred only after the intervention of time and misfortune" | a moment of sudden revelation or insight. |
| crampon "The ice was bare of snow and embedded with a coarse black grit that crunched beneath the steel points of my crampons" | Tool used for climbing/ascending |
| volition "I was forced to acknowledge that volition alone, however powerful, was not going to get me up the north wall" | The faculty or power of using one’s will |
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