(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 rapport 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).