English 10 vocab 23

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In 1931, Loren Eiseley joined the Morrill Paleontological Expedition. His ___ at such an honor must have been great.

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elation

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He participated in the South Party's exhaustive field expeditions in Nebraska. The thorough examination of fossil records was a strict, austere discipline.

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exhaustive, austere

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Eiseley joked he might turn into a yucca plant. Spending days on bare, ____ hillsides suggests its ___ as something taking root.

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austere, correlate

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Eiseley ___ much energy on anthropology, earning a Ph.D.

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Bestowed

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In 1948, he began a book that took ten years to complete due to the ___ of the subject.

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Enormity

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Some publishers were cautious about the book, perhaps because it seemed too exhaustive. But later, when it became a bestseller, they were probably elated.

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Exhaustive, elated

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Eiseley correlates the development of mammals to flowering plants, informing us that one cannot exist without the other.

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Correlates, apprises

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Eiseley aimed at scientists who called him unscientific; he accused them of ignoring culture.

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Recriminations

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Humans are the only animals with self-consciousness. Eiseley believes this awareness isn’t entirely a gift and can actually be ___ to humans. The loneliness and challenges of the human journey make some humans more troubled about life.

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Bestowed, undermining

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Eiseley felt a sort of ___ with earlier naturalists like Thoreau, sharing a mystical approach to nature.

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Camaraderie