Into the Wild Vocabulary

“The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society—a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the _____________, the perpetually unemployed”(Krakauer 43).

• mirthless

• contumacious

• destitute

• irksome

“ He did __________________ each morning to get in shape for the rigors of the bush and discussed backcountry survival strategies at length with Bob, a self styled survivalist”(Krakauer 45)

• destitute

• irksome

• aridity

• calisthenics

If he went to the rangers, however, they would have some ______________ questions for him…”(Krakauer 28)

• unsullied

• irksome

• enormity

• mirthless

“The mind is beset by light and space, the kinesthetic novelty of ___________, high temperature, and wind”(Krakauer 27).

• mirthless

• infallibility

• aridity

• obscured

“In other habitats, the rim of sky above the horizontal is broken or _________________; here, together with the overhead portion, it is infinitely vaster than that of rolling countryside and forest lands…”(Krakuaer 27)

• obscured

• mirthless

• contumacious

• irksome

“Thompson, Samel, and Swanson, however, are ___________________ Alaskans with a special fondness for driving motor vehicles where motor vehicles aren’t really designed to be driven”(Krakauer 11).

• infallibility

• contumacious

• aridity

• irksome

“There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was ____________ as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility”(Krakauer 9 )

• unsullied

• aridity

• mirthless

• destitute

“Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied ____________ of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives”(Krakauer 6 )

• mirthless

• aridity

• enormity

• irksome

“Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the ________________ enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives”(Krakauer 6).

• mirthless

• destitute

• aridity

• unsullied

a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) or the quality of yielding nothing of value

• destitute

• calisthenics

• irksome

• aridity