(adj) having to do with or like a hermit or recluse, especially one under a religious vow
What is eremitic?
100
(adj.) dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter; beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding, esoteric; little known or obscure
What is recondite?
100
"In mid-winter a field biologist discovered all his belongings - two rifles, camping gear, a diary filled with incoherent ranting about truth and beauty and ____________ ecological theory - in an empty cabin near Tofty, its interior filled with drifted snow" (72).
What is recondite?
100
"Not infrequently during their visits, Franz recalls, McCandless's face would darken with anger and he'd ____________ about his parents or politicians or the endemic idiocy of mainstream American life"(52).
What is fulminate?
100
indelible (adj)
(n) _____________ or (n)_____________
(n) What is indelibility or indelibleness?
200
(n.) a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe
What is harangues?
200
(v) to issue denunciations or the like; to explode loudly
What is fulminate?
200
"He also turned the tables and started lecturing the grandfatherly figure about the shortcomings of his ______ existence"(51).
What is sedentary?
200
"To salve his loneliness in the years after the accident, he started unofficially 'adopting' _______ Okinawan boys and girls" (50).
What is indigent?
200
harangues (n)
(v) ___________ or (v)___________
What is harangued or haranguing ?
300
(adj) lacking food, clothing, or other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor ; impoverished
What indigent?
300
(v.) to recall past experiences, events, etc.
What is reminisce?
300
"Franz took these ___________ in stride and in fact delighted in the boy's company" (51).
What is harangues?
300
"Writing about his death, Edward Hoagland observed that Alaska is 'not the best site in the world for __________experiments or peace-love theatrics'"(72).
What is eremitic?
300
eremitic (adj)
(n) _________ or (n)___________
What is eremite or eremitism
400
(adj.) deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic in behavior or speech
What is histrionic?
400
(adj.) characterized by or requiring a sitting posture
What is sedentary?
400
"McCandless's postcards, notes, and journals ...read like the work of an above average, somewhat ____________high school kid" (72).
What is histrionic?
400
"McCandless made an ___________impression on a number of people during the course of his heriga, most of whom spent only a few days in his company, a week or two at most"(48).
What is indelible?
400
reminisce (v)
(v)___________ or (v)_____________
What is reminisced or reminiscing?
500
(adj.) making marks that cannot be erased, removed, etc.; cannot be eliminated, forgotten, changed, etc.
What is indelible?
500
(n.) mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness; equilibrium
What is equanimity?
500
"[S]quinting at the sky, he begins to __________ further about the time he spent in the youngster's company"(52).
What is reminisce?
500
"Rosellini appeared to accept the failure of his hypothesis with _________"(75).
What is equanimity?
500
indelible (adj)
(n)____________ or (adv)_______________
What is (n) indelibleness and indelibility or (adv) indelibly?