Chapter 11&12 Vocab (Into the Wild)

Question 1

An opening

Answer 1

Aperture

Question 2

Specialized and unusual; known to only a few

Answer 2

Arcane

Question 3

Corrected, reformed

Answer 3

Chastened

Question 4

Put together; made up

Answer 4

Concocted

Question 5

Shaped like a cone

Answer 5

Conical

Question 6

Characteristic of starting a business

Answer 6

Entrepreneurial

Question 7

A crouched position used in skiing

Answer 7

Gorilla tuck

Question 8

Spiral-shaped

Answer 8

Helices

Question 9

Unwilling

Answer 9

Loathe

Question 10

Changeable, as is the element mercury

Answer 10

Mercurial

Question 11

A quagmire, bog

Answer 11

Morass

Question 12

For the sake of appearances

Answer 12

Ostensibly

Question 13

Style, flair

Answer 13

Panache

Question 14

Bitterness

Answer 14

Rancor

Question 15

Pushed by the wind

Answer 15

Scudding

Question 16

Fighting

Answer 16

Sparring

Question 17

Following the beliefs of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy

Answer 17

Tolstoyan

Question 18

The path of a moving object through space

Answer 18

Trajectory

Question 19

Uncertainties

Answer 19

Vagaries

Question 20

Unusual; inconsistent

Answer 20

Anomalous

Question 21

A desk in a library or other learning center

Answer 21

Carrel

Question 22

Anger

Answer 22

Choler

Question 23

Close friends

Answer 23

Confrères

Question 24

Impromptu; done without planning

Answer 24

Extemporaneous

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Hypocrite

Question 26

Peculiar; unpredictable in style

Answer 26

Idiosyncratic

Question 27

Being fixated on a single idea

Answer 27

Monomania

Question 28

Allowing light to shine through

Answer 28

Pellucid

Question 29

Falsely appearing holy or moral

Answer 29

Sanctimonious

Question 30

Carefully

Answer 30

Scrupulously