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= The Call of the Wild =

[|Call of the Wild Questions and Journal Entries]



Chapter 1 - Into the Primitive

Chapter 1 - 3
Chapter 4 and 5
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 * - Chapter 5 - **** The Toil of Trace and Trail **

__ Amenities __ - n. pleasant qualities __ Averred __ - v. declared __ Callous __ - adj. unfeeling __ Chaffering __ - v. haggling over terms or price __ Callowness- __ n. youth and inexperience; immaturity __ Copiously __ - adv. abundantly __ Evinced __ - v. showed clearly __ Fissures __ - n. narrow cracks __ Fraught __ - adj. accompanied __ Innocuously __ - adv. harmlessly __ Irresolutely __ - adv. lacking a solution __ Jaded- __ adj. worn-out __ Manifestly __ - adv. obviously; revealingly __ Perambulating __ - v. walking __ Remonstrance __ - n. a gesture of protest or scold __ Rending __ - v. violently tearing apart into pieces __ Repugnance __ - n. extreme dislike __ Rouse __ - v. to excite into anger or action __ Salient __ - adj. noticeable; prominent __ Slipshod __ - adj. poorly made; shabby __ Slovenly __ - adv. carelessly __ Superfluous __ - more than is necessary __ Wayfarers __ - n. those who travel




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** - Chapter 6 - For the Love of Man **

__ Conjuration __ - n. making a magic spell

__ Contagion- __ n. a disease that can be transmitted

__ Convalescence __ - n. gradual return to good health

__ Extremity __ - n. dying stage

__ Grubstaked __ - v. bought supplies for

__ Millrace __ - n. the current of water that drives a mill wheel

__ Peremptorily- __ adv. absolutely; without question

__ Plethoric __ - adj. too full

__ Wiliness __ - n. trickiness