A Walk in the Woods Vocab

Question 1

Milieu

Answer 1

Environment or surroundings

Question 2

Magnanimous

Answer 2

Very generous or forgiving

Takes the “high road”

Question 3

Comely

Answer 3

Pleasing in appearance

Question 4

amble

Answer 4

To walk slowly

Question 5

Beguiling

Answer 5

Tricky or seductive

Question 6

John Muir

Answer 6

Naturalist during the romantic movement

Question 7

Dissipate

Answer 7

To gradually disappear

Question 8

Pallor

Answer 8

Unhealthily pale

Question 9

Hoovered

Answer 9

Sucked up

Question 10

Deferential

Answer 10

Respectful

Question 11

Lap felled

Answer 11

Sean where excess material is folded over and sown down

Question 12

Spindrift

Answer 12

Sea or sand spray

Question 13

Occipital

Answer 13

The back of something

Question 14

Vale

Answer 14

Valley

Question 15

Sherpas

Answer 15

People who guide mountain climbers

Question 16

Foray

Answer 16

Attack

Question 17

Rent

Answer 17

Rip or tear

Question 18

Accoutrements

Answer 18

Extras

Question 19

Cudgel

Answer 19

Heavy stick

Question 20

Pique

Answer 20

Extreme irritation

Question 21

Salient

Answer 21

Most important

Question 22

Stratagem

Answer 22

Plan or scheme

Question 23

Adroit

Answer 23

Skillful, right handed

Question 24

Dubiety

Answer 24

Skepticism

Question 25

Door-cum-stairway

Answer 25

Door being used as a stairway

Question 26

Rectitude

Answer 26

Morally upright

Question 27

Apace

Answer 27

Fast

Question 28

Epigram

Answer 28

Witty saying

Question 29

Acrimonious

Answer 29

Bitter

Question 30

Aerie

Answer 30

High eagles nest

Question 31

Aplomb

Answer 31

Self confidence

Question 32

Portentous

Answer 32

Evil omen

Question 33

Gneiss

Answer 33

Metamorphic rock

Question 34

Cataleptic

Answer 34

Sudden attack of confusion

Question 35

Rime

Answer 35

Frost

Question 36

Equanimity

Answer 36

Calmness

Question 37

Commissary

Answer 37

Food supplies

Question 38

Orifice

Answer 38

A mouth or opening

Question 39

Petulant

Answer 39

impatient or irritable

Question 40

ineffable

Answer 40

unable to be expressed in words

Question 41

primeval

Answer 41

of the earliest time

Question 42

cataclysm

Answer 42

great upheaval causing violent changes

Question 43

preternatural

Answer 43

abnormal

Question 44

banal

Answer 44

dull or ordinary

Question 45

malapropism

Answer 45

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

Question 46

escarpment

Answer 46

cliff formed by erosion

Question 47

forbearance

Answer 47

self-control, restraint

Question 48

negligible

Answer 48

insignificant

Question 49

lassitude

Answer 49

weariness

Question 50

voluble

Answer 50

very loud

Question 51

chortling

Answer 51

combination of chuckle and snort

Question 52

superannuated

Answer 52

retired, outdated

Question 53

desultory

Answer 53

disconnected, random

Question 54

pugnacious

Answer 54

combative, ready to fight

Question 55

mesophytic

Answer 55

temperate plant

Question 56

depredation

Answer 56

robbing or plundering

Question 57

gimlet

Answer 57

a small tool used for cutting holes

Question 58

demur

Answer 58

to object or hesitate

Question 59

comestible

Answer 59

food

Question 60

scopes trial

Answer 60

1925 trial in TN over evolution taught in schools

Question 61

promulgate

Answer 61

to publish or make known

Question 62

Xanadu

Answer 62

an idealized place of magnificent beauty

Question 63

grazier

Answer 63

person who watches over grazing cattle or sheep

Question 64

fiat

Answer 64

official degree

Question 65

fortuitous

Answer 65

accidental, fortunate

Question 66

recluse

Answer 66

a hermit

Question 67

privation

Answer 67

lacking in ordinary necessities

Question 68

peregrination

Answer 68

wandering

Question 69

seminal

Answer 69

crucial or critical

Question 70

cossetted

Answer 70

pampered

Question 71

venerable

Answer 71

old and respected

Question 72

temerity

Answer 72

foolhardiness, recklessness

Question 73

capacious

Answer 73

roomy, spacious

Question 74

surfeit

Answer 74

excess

Question 75

insipid

Answer 75

dull or lifeless

Question 76

leonine

Answer 76

lion-like

Question 77

frisson

Answer 77

shiver of fear or excitement

Question 78

Harper’s Ferry

Answer 78

place in Virginia where john brown revolted in 1959

Question 79

john brown

Answer 79

white man who believed in abolition

Question 80

disingenuous

Answer 80

not straightforward, insincere

Question 81

whorl

Answer 81

anything coiled or spiraled

Question 82

acrid

Answer 82

sharp or bitter, sarcastic

Question 83

officious

Answer 83

offering unwanted advice, meddlesome

Question 84

Pangaea

Answer 84

original supercontinent

Question 85

ineluctable

Answer 85

unavoidable, certain

Question 86

transitory

Answer 86

not lasting very long

Question 87

canted

Answer 87

sloping or slanted

Question 88

cant

Answer 88

meaningless talk

Question 89

sere

Answer 89

dry and withered

Question 90

noisome

Answer 90

harmful, foul-smelling

Question 91

till

Answer 91

glacial gravel

Question 92

catamount

Answer 92

mountain lion or cougar

Question 93

cadre

Answer 93

a small, uniform group

Question 94

paroxysm

Answer 94

sudden attack or spasm

Question 95

insidious

Answer 95

sly and treacherous

Question 96

anachromism

Answer 96

something put out of place in time

Question 97

parvenu

Answer 97

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

Question 98

cataract

Answer 98

waterfall

Question 99

plaudit

Answer 99

expression of approval or praise

Question 100

droll

Answer 100

amusing in an odd way

Question 101

ungainly

Answer 101

awkward or clumsy

Question 102

cull

Answer 102

to select and gather

Question 103

commensurate

Answer 103

equal in measure and size

Question 104

inane

Answer 104

lacking sense or meaning, foolish

Question 105

tarn

Answer 105

a small lake