Chapter 16&17 Vocab (Into the Wild)

Question 1

Independence

Answer 1

Autonomy

Question 2

Axioms

Answer 2

Statements or beliefs that are taken as true because nothing contradicts them

Question 3

Castigated

Answer 3

Scolded powerfully; berated

Question 4

Climactic

Answer 4

At the climax of an emotion or event

Question 5

Counterintuitive

Answer 5

Opposite to what one would expect or think

Question 6

Enthrall

Answer 6

To captivate

Question 7

Ethnobotany

Answer 7

The study of how a culture understands plants and their lore

Question 8

Factitious

Answer 8

Produced or made by man as opposed to nature

Question 9

Geophysical

Answer 9

The study physical properties of the Earth

Question 10

Gaunt

Answer 10

Extremely thin

Question 11

Gloaming

Answer 11

The soft light at dawn or dusk

Question 12

Hoosier

Answer 12

Someone from Indiana

Question 13

Iaconic

Answer 13

Not given to flowery words or much length in speech or writing

Question 14

Leery

Answer 14

Skittish, anxious

Question 15

Pedestrious

Answer 15

On foot

Question 16

Perambulations

Answer 16

Walks around an area

Question 17

Proximity

Answer 17

Physical nearness

Question 18

Rictus

Answer 18

A grimace

Question 19

Succumbing

Answer 19

Dying or coming under the power of something

Question 20

Sulfurous

Answer 20

Heavy with the chemical element, sulfur or stinking of sulfur

Question 21

Taiga

Answer 21

A damp forest where conifers grow

Question 22

Taut

Answer 22

Pulled tight

Question 23

Arable

Answer 23

Appropriate for farming

Question 24

Bedouin

Answer 24

A member of a nomadic desert tribe

Question 25

Confluence

Answer 25

Joining, coming together

Question 26

Coppice

Answer 26

A grove

Question 27

Gauging

Answer 27

Measuring

Question 28

Gothic

Answer 28

Remote and threatening

Question 29

Hauteur

Answer 29

Snobbishness; superiority

Question 30

Hydrologists

Answer 30

Scientists who study water and inhabitants

Question 31

Incandescent

Answer 31

Glowing

Question 32

Livid

Answer 32

Wild; angry

Question 33

massif

Answer 33

A major mountain range

Question 34

Metis

Answer 34

A person of racially mixed heritage

Question 35

Miasma

Answer 35

Fog

Question 36

Naive

Answer 36

Innocent

Question 37

Oedipal

Answer 37

Emotional attachment to a parent of the opposite sex—one who is treated by a doctor in the mental health field

Question 38

Scabbard

Answer 38

A sheath for holding a knife

Question 39

Shank

Answer 39

A narrowed piece of ground

Question 40

Sustenance

Answer 40

Enough food and water for survival

Question 41

Tableau

Answer 41

A scene or picture

Question 42

Terra…incognita

Answer 42

A Latin term meaning unknown land

Question 43

Ungulate

Answer 43

A hoofed animal, such as a moose, goat, deer, or caribou

Question 44

Voyeur

Answer 44

Spy; interloper