Vocabulary Quiz: Into the Wild

transcendent

• Excessively sentimental

• Excellent beyond human understanding

• Dry out; lacking vitality

• Stubbornly resistant to authority

asceticism

• Rigorous self-denial

• A long journey or period of wandering

• Explode (bomb, experiment, or person)

• The quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others

fulminate

• Explode (bomb, experiment, or person)

• Stubbornly resistant to authority

• Dry out; lacking vitality

• Rigorous self-denial

altruism

• The quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others

• Rigorous self-denial

• A long journey or period of wandering

• Excessively sentimental

recalcitrant

• Slow or lazy

• Boring or overused remark

• Stubbornly resistant to authority

• Over-dramatizing things

 peregrination

• reprimand someone in a very harsh way

• a long journey or period of wandering

• the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others

• clear; easily understandable

contumacious

• submissive
• compliant

• willfully obedient; respects authority

• stubbornly disobedient; resisting authority

mawkish

• Logical
• showing no friendliness toward a person or enthusiasm

• slow or lazy

• excessively sentimental

desiccate

• Soak in water
• State of being more than full

• Really hard to comprehend

• Dry out thoroughly; lacking vitality; spiritless

surfeit

• State of being more than full

• Satisfaction or contentment
• Filled with dissatisfaction

• State of deficiency