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A Walk in the Woods Vocab Flashcards

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1
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Milieu

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Environment or surroundings

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Magnanimous

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Very generous or forgiving

Takes the “high road”

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Comely

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Pleasing in appearance

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amble

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To walk slowly

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Beguiling

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Tricky or seductive

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John Muir

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Naturalist during the romantic movement

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Dissipate

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To gradually disappear

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Pallor

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Unhealthily pale

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Hoovered

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Sucked up

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Deferential

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Respectful

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Lap felled

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Sean where excess material is folded over and sown down

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Spindrift

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Sea or sand spray

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Occipital

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The back of something

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Vale

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Valley

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Sherpas

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People who guide mountain climbers

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Foray

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Attack

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Rent

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Rip or tear

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Accoutrements

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Extras

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Cudgel

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Heavy stick

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Pique

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Extreme irritation

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Salient

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Most important

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Stratagem

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Plan or scheme

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Adroit

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Skillful, right handed

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Dubiety

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Skepticism

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Door-cum-stairway

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Door being used as a stairway

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Rectitude

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Morally upright

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Apace

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Fast

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Epigram

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Witty saying

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Acrimonious

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Bitter

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Aerie

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High eagles nest

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Aplomb

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Self confidence

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Portentous

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Evil omen

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Gneiss

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Metamorphic rock

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Cataleptic

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Sudden attack of confusion

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Rime

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Frost

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Equanimity

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Calmness

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Commissary

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Food supplies

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Orifice

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A mouth or opening

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Petulant

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impatient or irritable

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ineffable

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unable to be expressed in words

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primeval

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of the earliest time

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cataclysm

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great upheaval causing violent changes

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preternatural

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abnormal

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banal

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dull or ordinary

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malapropism

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misuse of words when they sound alike but have very different meanings

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escarpment

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cliff formed by erosion

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forbearance

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self-control, restraint

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negligible

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insignificant

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lassitude

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weariness

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voluble

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very loud

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chortling

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combination of chuckle and snort

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superannuated

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retired, outdated

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desultory

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disconnected, random

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pugnacious

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combative, ready to fight

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mesophytic

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temperate plant

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depredation

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robbing or plundering

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gimlet

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a small tool used for cutting holes

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demur

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to object or hesitate

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comestible

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food

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scopes trial

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1925 trial in TN over evolution taught in schools

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promulgate

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to publish or make known

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Xanadu

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an idealized place of magnificent beauty

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grazier

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person who watches over grazing cattle or sheep

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fiat

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official degree

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fortuitous

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accidental, fortunate

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recluse

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a hermit

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privation

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lacking in ordinary necessities

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peregrination

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wandering

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seminal

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crucial or critical

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cossetted

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pampered

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venerable

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old and respected

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temerity

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foolhardiness, recklessness

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capacious

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roomy, spacious

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surfeit

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excess

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insipid

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dull or lifeless

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leonine

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lion-like

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frisson

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shiver of fear or excitement

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Harper’s Ferry

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place in Virginia where john brown revolted in 1959

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john brown

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white man who believed in abolition

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disingenuous

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not straightforward, insincere

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whorl

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anything coiled or spiraled

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acrid

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sharp or bitter, sarcastic

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officious

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offering unwanted advice, meddlesome

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Pangaea

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original supercontinent

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ineluctable

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unavoidable, certain

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transitory

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not lasting very long

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canted

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sloping or slanted

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cant

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meaningless talk

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sere

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dry and withered

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noisome

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harmful, foul-smelling

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till

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glacial gravel

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catamount

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mountain lion or cougar

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cadre

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a small, uniform group

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paroxysm

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sudden attack or spasm

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insidious

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sly and treacherous

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anachromism

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something put out of place in time

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parvenu

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someone with new wealth or power that is not accepted by their new social class

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cataract

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waterfall

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plaudit

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expression of approval or praise

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droll

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amusing in an odd way

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ungainly

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awkward or clumsy

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cull

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to select and gather

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commensurate

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equal in measure and size

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inane

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lacking sense or meaning, foolish

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tarn

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a small lake

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