Into the Wild Vocab 1-5

Giving the impression something bad will happen

• onerous

• ominous

• teeming

• turgid

Stubbornly disobedient to authority

• incongruously

• mien

• lumpen

• contumacious

Walt is an _______ aerospace engineer who designed radar systems for NASA.

• enigmatic

• emanates

• eminent

• onerous

The bus is rusting __________ in the fireweed beside Stampede Trail.

• incongruously

• ominous

• austerity

• turgid

The Teklanika River surges in a boil of white water.

• onerous

• austerity

• torrent

• enigmatic

A person's look or manner that may indicate mood

• mien

• plebeian

• lumpen

• denizens

Chris spent four years fulfilling an ________ duty: to graduate from college.

• eminent

• onerous

• enigmatic

• ominous

Chris liked the _______ of the desert landscape.

• contumacious

• austerity

• primordial

• itinerant

A person who travels from place to place

• denizens

• plebeian

• itinerant

• lumpen

The Slabs was FULL OF and SWARMING with travelers.

• teeming

• ominous

• incongruously

• mien