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Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Primitive | pertaining to the beginning, early stages, undeveloped |
| Toil | difficult labor |
| Reside | to live at a place for a long period of time |
| Vast | very large in size or cope, enormous, colossal |
| Solitary | alone by oneself |
| Wrath | extreme anger |
| Fiend | an evil being, demon, devil, antagonist |
| Sufficient | enough |
| Revelation | a truth revealed |
| Latent | hidden, present, yet not yet known |
| Primordial | referring back to initial stages, genesis |
| Peril | danger, risk |
| Vicarious | to experience through another’s thoughts, feeling, experiences |
| Antagonist | the villain, opponent in a story |
| Reproof | scolding |
| Introspective | to focus on ones’ own thinking and feeling |
| Perpetual | never ending, ongoing, eternal |
| Gaunt | extremely thin and boney |
| Venom | a toxic substance from an animal, poison |
| Arduous | difficult |
| Prone | 1. likely to do; 2. To be face down |
| Shun | to purposely avoid |
| Compel | to force to do something |
| Loath | reluctant |
| Malinger | to fake illness in order to get out of work |
| Courier | a delivery person, mail carrier |
| Resolute | very determined |
| Conspicuous | very noticeable, easy to see |
| Incomprehensible | impossible to understand, read |
| Abject | of the most miserable kind |
| Comply | to agree with, to go along with |
| Deluged | overcome as with wither, flooded, over run |
| Aspire | to seek to gain or attain a goal |
| Potent | powerful |
| Resilient | the ability to adjust to or overcome change or misfortune, to spring back to shape, regain shape easily |
| Perplexed | confused or befuddled, mixed up |
| Lugubrious | mournful, gloomy, often to an exaggerated degree, dismal |
| Deceit | dishonesty, trickery |
| Concealed | to put out of sight; hide |
| Apprehensive | a feeling of fear or dread |
| Incompetence | not legally qualified, lacking skills, lacking ability and knowledge, inadequate, incapable |
| Feigned | to pretend or fake |
| Salient | most important or noticeable, prominent, striking, remarkable |
| Fatigue | noun- weariness from labor or stress – (verb – tire) |
| Callow | lacking adult maturity; immature |
| Superfluous | extra, unnecessary or too much, excessive, redundant |
| Taut | pulled or drawn tight, not slack, tense |
| Slovenly | untidy or unclean in habits and appearance, unkempt, sloppy, messy, slipshod |
| Manifested | to make real, or clear, to show plainly; to have physical or tangible reality |
| Forbear | to resist, to stay away from, to keep back, to avoid, to withhold |
| Convalescence | slow recovery of health and strength from an illness |
| Pompous | arrogant, self important |
| Transient | lasting a short time, passing with time, only a brief time, temporary |
| Retained | to hold on to, to keep, to remember, to maintain possession of |
| Valor | courage or boldness as in battle, heroic courage when facing danger, bravery, honor |
| Malicious | deliberately harmful, mean-spirited, intending to cause harm or hurt, spiteful |
| Exploit | noun-an heroic act, a striking or notable deed Verb – to use unfairly, to use for profit, to make use of selfishly |
| Incoherent | unable to understand or read, without logical connection, disconnected and confused, disjointed, rambling |
| Descend | to move down or to go down or lower |
| Ascend | to move or go upward |
| Obliterate | to completely destroy |
| Musing | to think, ponder or consider |
| Vigil | to keep a watch |
| Tangible | real and touchable, palpable |
| Rampant | uncontrolled growth |
| Calamity | a disaster |
| Void | empty |
| forlorn | sad and lonely, hopeless |
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