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Chapter 11&12 Vocab (Into the Wild) Flashcards

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1
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An opening

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Aperture

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2
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Specialized and unusual; known to only a few

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Arcane

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3
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Corrected, reformed

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Chastened

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Put together; made up

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Concocted

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5
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Shaped like a cone

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Conical

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6
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Characteristic of starting a business

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Entrepreneurial

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7
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A crouched position used in skiing

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Gorilla tuck

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Spiral-shaped

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Helices

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9
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Unwilling

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Loathe

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10
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Changeable, as is the element mercury

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Mercurial

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11
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A quagmire, bog

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Morass

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12
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For the sake of appearances

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Ostensibly

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13
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Style, flair

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Panache

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14
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Bitterness

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Rancor

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15
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Pushed by the wind

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Scudding

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16
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Fighting

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Sparring

17
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Following the beliefs of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy

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Tolstoyan

18
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The path of a moving object through space

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Trajectory

19
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Uncertainties

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Vagaries

20
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Unusual; inconsistent

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Anomalous

21
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A desk in a library or other learning center

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Carrel

22
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Anger

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Choler

23
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Close friends

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Confrères

24
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Impromptu; done without planning

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Extemporaneous

25
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A person who does or says one thing but or says something else

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Hypocrite

26
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Peculiar; unpredictable in style

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Idiosyncratic

27
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Being fixated on a single idea

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Monomania

28
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Allowing light to shine through

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Pellucid

29
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Falsely appearing holy or moral

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Sanctimonious

30
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Carefully

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Scrupulously

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