Into The Wild Part 2 Flashcards
Mercurial
Of a person subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind
Miasma
A highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor
Munificence
The quality or action of being lavishly generous; great generosity
Obliterate
Destroy utterly; wipe out
Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Pellucid
Translucently clear
Perambulation
To walk through, about or over
To traverse in order to examine of inspect
Phantasmal
Something apparently seen but having no physicsl reality
ghosts
Plebian
Of low social standing
Commoners
Prissy
Fussily and excessively respectable
Prim and proper
Rictus
A fixed grimace or grin
Subcutaneous
Situated or applied under the skin
Subcutaneous fat
Surreal
Very strange or unusual, unreal
Tableau
A group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or history
Unencumbered
Not having any burden; free of debt or financial liability