Week 16 Flashcards
Into the Wild Chapters 9-13
noun; Passionate enthusiasm for a cause or activity; Sentence from original text: “If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued it with a ~~~ bordering on obsession.”; Additional example sentence: “He felt a kind of religious ~~~.”
zeal
adjective; Not widely known or easily understood; Sentence from original text: “I devoted most of my waking hours to fantasizing about, and then undertaking, ascents of remote mountains in Alaska and Canada— ~~~ spires, steep and frightening, that nobody in the world beyond a handful of climbing geeks had ever heard of.”; Additional example sentence: “The poem referenced ~~~ myths unfamiliar to most readers.”
obscure
noun; A container used to hold something; Sentence from original text: “I came to appreciate that mountains make poor ~~~s for dreams.”; Additional example sentence: “The artist used empty jars as ~~~s for her creative ideas.”
receptacle
adjective; Elevated in style, tone, or ideals; Sentence from original text: “I possessed neither his intellect nor his ~~~ ideals.”; Additional example sentence: “The leader was known for his ~~~ vision of a better future.”
lofty
noun; Excessive pride or self-confidence, often leading to downfall; Sentence from original text: “Eighteen years after the event, I now recognize that I suffered from ~~~, perhaps, and an appalling innocence, certainly; but I wasn’t suicidal.”; Additional example sentence: “The tragic hero’s ~~~ led to his ultimate demise.”
hubris
zeal
noun; Passionate enthusiasm for a cause or activity; Sentence from original text: “If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued it with a ~~~ bordering on obsession.”; Additional example sentence: “He felt a kind of religious ~~~.”
obscure
adjective; Not widely known or easily understood; Sentence from original text: “I devoted most of my waking hours to fantasizing about, and then undertaking, ascents of remote mountains in Alaska and Canada— ~~~ spires, steep and frightening, that nobody in the world beyond a handful of climbing geeks had ever heard of.”; Additional example sentence: “The poem referenced ~~~ myths unfamiliar to most readers.”
receptacle
noun; A container used to hold something; Sentence from original text: “I came to appreciate that mountains make poor ~~~s for dreams.”; Additional example sentence: “The artist used empty jars as ~~~s for her creative ideas.”
lofty
adjective; Elevated in style, tone, or ideals; Sentence from original text: “I possessed neither his intellect nor his ~~~ ideals.”; Additional example sentence: “The leader was known for his ~~~ vision of a better future.”
hubris
noun; Excessive pride or self-confidence, often leading to downfall; Sentence from original text: “Eighteen years after the event, I now recognize that I suffered from ~~~, perhaps, and an appalling innocence, certainly; but I wasn’t suicidal.”; Additional example sentence: “The tragic hero’s ~~~ led to his ultimate demise.”
