(adv) outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended
What is ostensibly?
100
(n.) power or ability or act or to influence people, events, decisions, etc
What is leverage?
100
"Two days after arriving in [Carmel], he _______ knocked on the door of Edward Weston, who was sufficiently charmed by the overwrought young man to humor him" (89).
What is brazenly?
100
"Loren Johnson, Billies's father, __________ worked as a truck driver,'but he never held any job for long,' she says" (108).
What is ostensibly?
100
atavistic (adj)
(n) _____________ or (adv)_____________
What is (n) atavism or (adv) atavistically?
200
(n.) something disadvantageous
What is liability?
200
(adj) tending to arouse strife, sedition, etc.; inflammatory
What is incendiary?
200
"Chris answered that careers were demeaning 'twentieth-century inventions,' more of a ________ than an asset, and that he would do fine without one, thank you" (114).
What is liability?
200
"Like Waterman and McCunn, he displayed a staggering __________ of common sense" (85).
What is paucity?
200
leverage (n)
(v) ___________ or (v)___________
What is (v) leveraged or (v) leveraging?
300
(adj) reverting to or suggesting the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type
What atavistic?
300
(v.) to devise; make up; contrive
What is concocted?
300
"[O]ne is struck by Ruess's craving for connection with the natural world and by his almost _________ passion for the country through which he walked" (91).
What is incendiary?
300
"He relished the role and _______novel, grueling training regimens that his teammates still remember well" (112).
What is concocted?
300
brazenly (adv)
(adj) _________ or (n)___________
What is (adj) brazen or (n) brazeness
400
(n.) a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit
What is anchorites?
400
(n.) relation; connection, especially harmonious or sympathetic relation
What is rapport?
400
"Chris, if you really want to make a difference in the world, if you really want to help people who are less fortunate, get yourself some _______first" (114).
What is leverage?
400
"Ruess was, in the words of Wallace Stegner, 'a callow romantic, an adolescent esthete, an _________wanderer of the wastelands'" (90).
What is atavistic?
400
incendiary (adj)
(n)___________
What is (n) incendiaries?
500
(n.) smallness of quantity; insufficiency; fewness; scarcity; scantiness
What is paucity?
500
(adv.) shamelessly or impudently
What is brazenly?
500
"Around Iron Mountain his _________ with the creatures of the forest was legendary" (108).
What is rapport?
500
"[T]hese remarkable voyages were...undertaken chiefly from the wish to find lonely places, where these ________ might dwell in peace, undisturbed by the turmoil and temptations of the world" (97).