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44 Cards in this Set
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peregrinations |
journey by foot |
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fulminated |
to denounce |
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unsullied |
clean or made impure |
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derelict |
run down, in a very poor condition |
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anomaly |
irregular |
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itinerant |
moving around a lot, traveling from place to place |
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unencumbered |
not bothered with responsibility |
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intermittent |
occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady: |
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emasculated |
to weaken |
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indolently |
lazy |
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hubris |
excessive pride or self-confidence. |
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contrived asceticism |
faking you don't want luxury |
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enigmatic |
difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious: |
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copious |
abundant in supply or quantity: |
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flamboyant |
showy |
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ephemeral |
short lived |
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penchant |
tendency to do something: |
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nemo |
nobody |
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monomania |
exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing |
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clemency |
mercy; lenience: |
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sanctimonious |
making a show of being morally superior to other people: |
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anomalous |
deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected: |
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idiosyncratic |
of or relating to idiosyncrasy; peculiar or individual: |
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extemporaneous |
spoken or done without preparation: |
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recalcitrant |
having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline: |
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zeal |
great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective: |
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extricated |
free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty: |
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volition |
the faculty or power of using one's will: |
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Rubicon |
river/ boundary |
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resilience |
the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness: |
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precipitous decline |
steep decline |
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insidiously |
evil |
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enigmatic |
mysterious |
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nuance |
subtle |
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malevolent |
bad |
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anchorage couple |
found chris |
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john burrs and bob |
meet chris while he searches for berries,chris helps sell books at flee market, |
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charlie |
old man who lets chris live in a old van onside bullhead city |
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april 1992 |
goes into wild |
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goes into wild |
april 1992 |
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Ron Franz |
80 year old man, gives chris ride from soltan to colorado. takes advice to live off land. tries to adapt chris. |
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galliun |
last person to see chris alive gives him boots drives him to stampede trail |
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sam walter |
father, nasa, 8 kids |
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wayne |
offers chris ride place to work place to stay at his grain elevator |