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