Into The Wild Vocabulary Flashcards by Faith Hawley | Brainscape

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Anomaly

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Something out of the ordinary

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Aesthetic

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Anyone who appreciates beauty in nature

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Asceticism

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Life that eliminates anything worldly

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Beatific

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Saintly

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Bourgeois

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Middle class

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Castigated

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Punish

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Choler

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Anger

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Convivial

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Friendly

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Desiccated

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Dehydrated

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Emetic

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Causes vomiting

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Emulating

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Copying

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Endemic

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Wide spread

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escarpments

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Steep slopes

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Existential

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A mindset that emphasizes personal freedom

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Extemporaneous

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To improvise

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Feckless

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Incompetent

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Fulmination

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Verbal attack

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Harangues

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Scolding or angry speech; sermon

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Hauteur

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Arrogance

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Idiosyncratic

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Reacting to a specific characteristic to a particular person

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Incorrigible

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Uncontrollable; incapable of change

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Indigent

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Poor

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Insidiously

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Causing harm in a sneaky way

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Itinerant

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Traveling

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Lumpen

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Boring

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Mercurial

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Changeable

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Modicum

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Small amount

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Monomania

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Self obsession

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Narcissist

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Someone who is in love with themselves

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Perambulation

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To walk around

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Peregrinations

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Travels

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Plebeian

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Commoner; crude

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Posited

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To out forward as a truth

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Sanctimonious

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Showing moral superiority

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Sobriquet

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Humorous nickname

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Sojourn

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Temporary stay

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Taiga

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Subarctic forest

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Transcendent

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Beyond our senses

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Unalloyed

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Pure

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Wanderlust

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Strong desire to travel