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=Vocabulary Unit 1=

Format: - part of speech. dictionary definition.
 * 1) . **Vocabulary Word** (bold)

An image that depicts the vocabulary word.

Sentence from book: Sentence where the word is used in __Into The Wild__ (page # of sentence)

Original Sentence: You make up a sentence using the vocabulary word.

An image of your original sentence.

- n. someone who is fascinated with oneself; someone with excessive self-love.
 * 1.Narcissist**



Sentence from book: "Some readers admired the boy immensely for his courage and noble ideals; others fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity"(Author's notes)

Original Sentence: Rickey Henderson seemed like a narcissist when he pounded his chest and talked about himself in the third person.




 * 2. Escarpment

-n. A long, steep slope, especially one at the end of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.



Sentence from book: "He drifted past saguaros and alkali flats, camped beneath escarpments of naked Precambrian stone.” (pg. 33)

Original sentence (by Maya): "The climber climbed up the escarpment quickly, eager to reach the top."

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 * 3. Acreage

n. a plot of land amounting to approximately on acre or more. extent or area in acres. Sentence from book: 'In 1980, Denali national Park was expanded to include the Kantishna Hills and the northernmost cordillera of the Outer Range, but a parcel of low terrain within the new park acreage was omitted: a long arm of land known as the Wolf Townships, which encompasses the first half of the Stampede Trail.' (pg. 11)

Original sentence (By the one and only Nazz): "The Farmer looked over the acreage of crops and farmland, admiring what he had done." **

4.) **Obliterated (Nate Mason) - Verb,** To remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.

- Sentence from book; page 10 - In the three decades since construction ended, much of the of the roadbed has been obliterated by washouts, brush, and beaver ponds, but the bus is still there.

- Original sentence - Hurricane Katrina obliterated New Orleans, Louisiana.

- Verb:** made more serious by attendant circumstances. Sentence from book: "But there was I way to avoid such aggravation: He could simply abandon the Datsun, and resume his odyssey on foot.
 * 5. Aggravated

Original sentance: Wayne Rooney Aggravated his hip.

6. Plebeian //n.// **1.** one of the common people Sentence from the book "He liked the community's stasis, its plebeian virtues and unassuming mien.". Original sentence: (by Jacob) "Jim stared down at the town, its plebeian style stood out against the lush background.".

//n// .** //the study of humankind. Sentence from book: At the University of Washington and later at Seattle University, he (Gene Rosellini) immersed himself in **anthropology**, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree.
 * 7. Anthropology

Original sentence: That chimpanzee is very// anthropomorphic.

-Verb. To criticize or reprimand severely. Sentence from "Into The Wild": "He lampooned Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden, called for the resignation of Attorney General Edwin Meese, lambasted Bible-thumpers of the Christian right, urged vigilance against the Soviet threat, castigated the Japanese for hunting whales, and defended Jesse Jackson as a viable presidential candidate".(page #123) Original Sentence: In a soccer game, Tim Cahill was castigated by soccer game officials.
 * 8.) Castigated(By: Nigel Smith)**

-verb. strip something of its covering, possessions, or assets; make bare
 * 9) Denuded** by Graham Owen

sentence from book. Denuded mountains are visible to the west, towering sternl y above the rooftops of adjacent double-wides.

My sentence, The denuded rainforest is damaging the world, it needs to be stopped.



10) Monotonous by Jonathan Garrett -adj. Lacking in variety; tediously unvarying.

Sentence from book: Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. My sentence: The __**monotonous**__ boss always talks about his flanges.

11) Recondite-Adj. To be beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; little known.

Book sentence-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 recondite ecological theory-in an empty cabin near Tofty, its interior filled with drifted snow.

Original sentence The scientist found recondite information on the famous Galapagos turtle. Recondite-Adj. To be beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; little known.  Book sentence-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 recondite ecological theory-in an empty cabin near Tofty, its interior filled with drifted snow.

Original sentence The scientist found recondite information on the famous Galapagos turtle.

adjective. Of or relating to basic facts or principles.  Nuance, strategy, and anything beyond the __rudimentaries__ of technique were wasted on Chris. (111) Original Sentence: My math teacher refused to teach us anything else beside the rudimentaries. By Alex Clark
 * 12) Rudimentaries (Rudimentary) **

13) Demeanor (Ben Dollar)
Demeanor, n. outward behavior or bearing. p. 103: "Tall and solidly proportioned, he wears wire-rimmed glasses that give him a professorial demeanor."

Example: An Uncle Sam poster on the wall will add a patriotic demeanor to any home- purchase one now!


 * 14) Ephemeral (Graham Kelly)**

Ephemeral, adj. Lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory: the ephemeral joys of childhood. p. 88. The ephemeral bloom of a sego lily peeks from the toe of a ninety-foot stone arch, and canyon wrens call back and forth in plaintive tones from a thatch of scrub oak.



Example: The ephemeral mayfly's adult life ranges from a few minutes to a few day depending on the species..

15) Unequivocally (Simon Montgomery) un·e·quiv·o·cal adj. - Admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; clear and unambiguous

Unequivocally adv.

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sentence in the book - ... Both men insisted-admittingly and unequivocally- was the remains of a caribou...

When his mother told him to clean his room he unequivocally did as he was told.

16) Hauteur (Ryan Conley) ho-tur -Disdainful pride;haughtiness;snobbery Hauter **n**. p.180. "Some critics have even drawn parallels between McCandless and the Arctic's most infamous tragic figure, Sir John Franklin, a nineteenth-century British naval officer whose smugness and hauteur contributed to some 140 deaths, including his own". Example: Sidney Crosbey showed great hauteur when he won the Stanley Cup.