(n) fellow members of a fraternity, profession, etc.; colleague
What is confreres?
100
(adj.) not fitting into a common or familiar type, classification, or pattern; unusual; incongruous or inconsistent
What is anomalous?
100
"Such bereavement, witnessed at close range, makes even the most eloquent apologia for high-risk activities ring ______ and hallow" (132).
What is fatuous?
100
"To his dwindling number of _________, McCandless appeared to grow more intense with each passing month" (123-124).
What is confreres?
100
anomalous (adj)
(n) _____________ or (adj)_____________
What is (n) anomalousness or (adj) anomalously?
200
(n.) an act or deed showing mercy or leniency
What is clemency?
200
(adj) friendly; agreeable; fond of feasting, drinking, a merry company; enjoying parties; jovial
What is convivial?
200
"Chris would fixate on his father's own less than sterling behavior many years earlier and silently denounce him as a _______hypocrite" (122).
What is sanctimonious?
200
" Chris's seemingly ________ political positions were perhaps best summoned up by Thoreau's declaration in 'Civil Disobedience': 'I heartily accept the motto - "That government is best which governs least"'" (123).
What is anomalous?
200
recumbent (adj)
(n) ___________ or (n)___________ or (adv)_______
What is (n) recumbence; or (n) recumbency; or (adv) recumbently
300
(adj) lying down; reclining; leaning
What recumbent?
300
(adj.) silly or foolish
What is fatuous?
300
"The opinions he expressed in print, argued with _______logic, were all over the map" (123).
What is idiosyncratic?
300
"I spent most of my time _______ in my tent - the ceiling was too low to allow my sitting upright" (140).
What is recumbent?
300
extemporaneous (adj)
(n) _________ or (n)___________ or (adv) _________
What is (n) extemporaneousness; (n) extemporaneity; or (adv) extemporaneously
400
(adj.) done, spoken, performed, etc., without special advance preparation; impromptu
What is extemporaneous?
400
(adj.) pertaining to the nature of something peculiar to an individual.
What is idiosyncratic?
400
"In 1977, while brooding on a Colorado bar stool, picking unhappily at my ________ scabs, I got it into my head to climb a mountain called the Devil's Thumb: (134).
What is existential?
400
"As soon as classes ended in the spring of 1989, Chris took his Datsun on another prolonged, _______ road trip"(124).
What is extemporaneous?
400
sanctimonious (adj)
(n)___________ (n) _________ or (adv)__________
What is (n) sanctimony; (n) sanctimoniousness; or (adv) sanctimoniously?
500
(adj.) making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.
What is sanctimonious?
500
(adj.) pertaining to (one's) existence or the reason thereof
What is existential?
500
"Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant ______, and this was especially true in Chris' case" (122).
What is clemency?
500
"He was intensely private but could be ______ and gregarious in the extreme" (115).