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  1. unsullied
    spotlessly clean and fresh
    Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives.
  2. infallibility
    the quality of never making an error
    There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility.
  3. derelict
    in deplorable condition
    A vintage International Harvester from the 1940s, the derelict vehicle is located twenty-five miles west of Healy as the raven flies, rusting incongruously in the fireweed beside the Stampede Trail, just beyond the boundary of Denali National Park.
  4. contumacious
    willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
    Thompson, Samel, and Swanson, however, are contumacious Alaskans with a special fondness for driving motor vehicles where motor vehicles aren’t really designed to be driven.
  5. autopsy
    an examination and dissection of a dead body
    The body was taken to Anchorage, where an autopsy was performed at the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory.
  6. mawkish
    effusively or insincerely emotional
    The Cabarets plywood-paneled walls are hung with deer antlers, Old Milwaukee beer promos, and mawkish paintings of game birds taking flight.
  7. estranged
    caused to be unloved
    If McCandless felt estranged from his parents and siblings, he found a surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees, most of whom lived in Westerberg's Carthage home.
  8. encrypt
    convert ordinary language into code
    Westerberg had been drawn into a scheme to build and sell "black boxes,” which illegally unscramble satellite-television transmissions, allowing people to watch encrypted cable programming without paying for it.
  9. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
    Contrite, he copped a plea to a single felony count and on October 10, 1990, some two weeks after McCandless arrived in Carthage, began serving a four-month sentence in Sioux Falls.
  10. nomadic
    migratory
    With Westerberg in stir, there was no work at the grain elevator for McCandless, so on October 23, sooner than he might have under different circumstances, the boy left town and resumed a nomadic existence.
  11. altruistic
    showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others
    (The latter is a reference to Tolstoy’s protagonist and alter ego, Pierre Bezuhov— altruistic, questing, illegitimately born.)
  12. itinerary
    a proposed route of travel
    Five weeks earlier he’d loaded all his belongings into his little car and headed west without an itinerary.
  13. odyssey
    a long wandering and eventful journey
    The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.
  14. onerous
    not easily borne; wearing
    He had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college.
  15. inimical
    not friendly
    The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical....
  16. therapeutic
    tending to cure or restore to health
    Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.
  17. egress
    the act of coming out; becoming apparent
    There was nowhere to move the car, however, as the only route of egress was now a foaming, full-blown river.
  18. distraught
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
    Instead of feeling distraught over this turn of events, moreover, McCandless was exhilarated: He saw the flash flood as an opportunity to shed unnecessary baggage.
  19. credo
    any system of principles or beliefs
    Although the tone of the journal—written in the third person in a stilted, self-consciousness voice—often veers toward melodrama, the available evidence indicates that McCandless did not misrepresent the facts; telling the truth was a credo he took seriously.
  20. brackish
    slightly salty
    “He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”
  21. unbridled
    not restrained or controlled
    This lower stretch of the river, from Hoover Dam to the gulf, has little in common with the unbridled torrent that explodes through the Grand Canyon, some 250 miles upstream from Topock.
  22. hummock
    a small natural hill
    On January 16, McCandless left the stubby metal boat on a hummock of dune grass southeast of El Golfo de Santa Clara and started walking north up the deserted beach.
  23. unsavory
    morally offensive
    To avoid being robbed by the unsavory characters who rule the streets and freeway overpasses where he slept, he learned to bury what money he had before entering a city, then recover it on the way out of town.
  24. primordial
    having existed from the beginning
    The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew.
  25. temperamental
    subject to sharply varying moods
    Didn’t like to be around too many people, though. Temperamental. He meant good, but I think he had a lot of complexes—know what I’m saying?
  26. turgid
    ostentatiously lofty in style
    Mesmerized by London’s turgid portrayal of life in Alaska and the Yukon, McCandless read and reread The Call of the Wild, White Fang, “To Build a Fire," "An Odyssey of the North,” “The Wit of Porportuk."
  27. enthralled
    filled with wonder and delight
    He was so enthralled by these tales, however, that he seemed to forget they were works of fiction, constructions of the imagination that had more to do with London’s romantic sensibilities than with the actualities of life in the subarctic wilderness.
  28. consignment
    the delivery of goods for sale or disposal
    One afternoon while McCandless was tending the book table at the Niland swap meet, somebody left a portable electric organ with Burres to sell on consignment.
  29. calisthenics
    light exercises designed to promote general fitness
    He did calisthenics 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.
  30. anachronistic
    chronologically misplaced
    On January 4, 1993, this writer received an unusual letter, penned in a shaky, anachronistic script that suggested an elderly author.
  31. desiccated
    thoroughly dried out
    Away from the lakeshore the land rises gently and then abruptly to form the desiccated, phantasmal badlands of Anza-Borrego.
  32. nexus
    the means of connection between things linked in series
    When he needed provisions, he would hitch or walk the four miles into town, where he bought rice and filled his plastic water jug at the market-liquor store-post office, a beige stucco building that serves as the cultural nexus of greater Salton City.
  33. ramshackle
    in deplorable condition
    Franz drove Alex the rest of the way, chatted with him there for a while, and then returned to town, where he lived alone, rent free, in return for managing a ramshackle apartment building.
  34. artifact
    a man-made object taken as a whole
    Executed with remarkable skill and creativity, this belt is as astonishing as any artifact Chris McCandless left behind.
  35. fulminate
    criticize severely
    Not infrequently during their visits, Franz recalls, McCandless’s face would darken with anger and he’d fulminate about his parents or politicians or the endemic idiocy of mainstream American life.
  36. burgeon
    grow and flourish
    Franz relished being with McCandless, but their burgeoning friendship also reminded him how lonely he’d been.
  37. pseudonym
    a fictitious name used when performing a particular role
    Ronald Franz (this is not his real name; at his request I have given him a pseudonym) looks remarkably sturdy for a man in his ninth decade who has survived two heart attacks.
  38. rancid
    having a rank smell or taste
    I opened the microwave, and the bottom of it was filled with rancid grease. Alex had been using it to cook chicken, and it never occurred to him that the grease had to drain somewhere.
  39. extravagant
    unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
    Given Walt’s need to exert control and Chris’s extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable.
  40. rapport
    a relationship of mutual understanding between people
    In high school McCandless had enjoyed a close rapport with two or three members of the opposite sex, and Carine recalls one instance when he got drunk and tried to bring a girl up to his bedroom in the middle of the night
  41. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
    The most strident criticism came in the form of a dense, multipage epistle from Ambler, a tiny Inupiat village on the Kobuk River north of the Arctic Circle.
  42. hubris
    overbearing pride or presumption
    McCandless is, finally, just a pale 20th-century burlesque of London's protagonist, who freezes because he ignores advice and commits big-time hubris).
  43. asceticism
    rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
    McCandless's contrived asceticism and a pseudoliterary stance compound rather than reduce the fault.
  44. histrionic
    characteristic of acting or a stage performance
    McCandless's postcards, notes, and journals ... read like the work of an above average, somewhat histrionic high school kid
  45. recondite
    difficult to penetrate
    In mid-winter a field biologist discovered all his belongings—two rifles, camping gear, a diary filled with incoherent ranting about truth and beauty and recondite ecological theory
  46. unkempt
    not neatly combed
    One rainy afternoon while walking into town, I crossed paths with an unkempt, agitated man who appeared to be about forty.
  47. forebear
    a person from whom you are descended
    He wondered whether humans could live as our forebears had when mammoths and saber-toothed tigers roamed the land or whether our species had moved too far from its roots to survive without gunpowder, steel, and other artifacts of civilization.
  48. serenade
    sing and play for somebody
    He carried around a cheap guitar held together with masking tape and would serenade anybody who’d listen with long, off-key songs about his adventures.
  49. incinerate
    become reduced to ashes
    the cabin he was staying in caught fire and burned to rubble, incinerating both his equipment and the voluminous accumulation of notes, poetry, and personal journals that he regarded as his life’s work.
  50. circuitous
    deviating from a straight course
    As if climbing the peak alone in winter weren’t challenging enough, this time he decided to up the ante even further by beginning his ascent at sea level, which entailed walking 160 hard, circuitous miles from the shore of Cook Inlet just to reach the foot of the mountain.
  51. flamboyant
    marked by ostentation but often tasteless
    And he seemed like a smart guy. But there was a side to him that was a little bit dreamy, a little bit out of touch with reality. He was flamboyant. He liked to party hard.
  52. bravado
    a swaggering show of courage
    He could be extremely responsible, but he had a tendency to wing it sometimes, to act impulsively, to get by on bravado and style.
  53. posthumously
    after death
    “I think I should have used more foresight about arranging my departure,” he confessed to his diary, significant portions of which were published posthumously in a five-part story by Kris Capps in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
  54. scavenge
    feed on carrion or refuse
    At one point he managed to scavenge meat from a diseased caribou that had wandered into the lake and died.
  55. bohemian
    unconventional in especially appearance and behavior
    Stella was a headstrong woman with bohemian tastes and driving artistic ambitions, for both herself and her kin; she self-published a literary journal, the Ruess Quartette, the cover of which was emblazoned with the family maxim: "Glorify the hour."
  56. callow
    young and inexperienced
    Ruess was, in the words of Wallace Stegner, "a callow romantic, an adolescent esthete, an atavistic wanderer of the wastelands"
  57. unscathed
    not injured
    Twice I was nearly gored to death by a wild bull. But always, so far, I’ve escaped unscathed and gone forth to other adventures.
  58. nonchalantly
    in a composed and unconcerned manner
    And in his final letter Ruess nonchalantly confesses to his brother: I have had a few narrow escapes from rattlers and crumbling cliffs.
  59. paraphernalia
    equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles
    except for the burros and their tack, none of Ruess’s possessions—his camping paraphernalia, journals, and paintings—was ever found.
  60. picaresque
    (of fiction) involving clever rogues or adventurers
    When Edward Abbey was writing The Monkey Wrench Gang, his picaresque novel about eco-terrorism in the canyon country, his pal Ken Sleight was said to have inspired the character Seldom Seen Smith.
  61. arcane
    requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
    Within the ranks of his arcane field—an advanced technology called synthetic aperture radar, or SAR—he is an eminence.
  62. mercurial
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
    According to members of the extended family, his moods can be dark and mercurial, although they say his famous temper has lost much of its volatility in recent years.
  63. trajectory
    the path followed by an object moving through space
    It is impossible to know what murky convergence of chromosomal matter, parent-child dynamics, and alignment of the cosmos was responsible, but Christopher Johnson McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from its trajectory.
  64. antisocial
    shunning contact with others
    He wasn’t antisocial—he always had friends, and everybody liked him—but he could go off and entertain himself for hours. He didn’t seem to need toys or friends. He could be alone without being lonely.
  65. rancor
    a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
    The rancor was more smoke than fire, says Carine, but "I think it was one of the reasons Chris and I were so close. We learned to count on each other when Mom and Dad weren’t getting along.”
  66. savvy
    the cognitive condition of someone who understands
    The old man’s backwoods savvy, his affinity for the wilderness, left a deep impression on the boy.
  67. panache
    distinctive and stylish elegance
    Indeed, in a goofy video Chris made in college, he can be heard belting out "Summers by the sea/Sailboats in Capri” with impressive panache, crooning like a professional lounge singer.
  68. nuance
    a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
    Nuance, strategy, and anything beyond the rudimentaries of technique were wasted on Chris.
  69. apartheid
    a social policy of racial segregation
    He spoke seriously to his friends about smuggling weapons into that country and joining the struggle to end apartheid.
  70. demeaning
    causing awareness of your shortcomings
    When Walt and Billie suggested that he needed a college degree to attain a fulfilling career, Chris answered that careers were demeaning “twentieth-century inventions," more of a liability than an asset, and that he would do fine without one, thank you.
  71. incorrigible
    impervious to correction by punishment
    To the contrary, he enjoyed tipping a glass now and then and was an incorrigible ham.
  72. infuriate
    make furious
    ‘All you need to know is that it works,’ he said. ‘You don’t need to know how or why.’ Chris was just being Chris, but it infuriated me.
  73. philanderer
    a man who likes many women
    One of the individuals he professed to admire greatly over the last two years of his life was a heavy drinker and incorrigible philanderer who regularly beat up his girlfriends.
  74. sanctimonious
    excessively or hypocritically pious
    Whenever Walt McCandless, in his stern fashion, would dispense a fatherly admonishment to Chris, Carine, or their half siblings, Chris would fixate on his father’s own less than sterling behavior many years earlier and silently denounce him as a sanctimonious hypocrite.
  75. obliquely
    to, toward or at one side
    He chose instead to make a secret of his dark knowledge and express his rage obliquely, in silence and sullen withdrawal.
  76. anomalous
    deviating from the general or common order or type
    Chris’s seemingly anomalous political positions were perhaps best summed up by Thoreau’s declaration in “Civil Disobedience": "I heartily accept the motto—‘That government is best which governs least.’ ”
  77. lambaste
    censure severely or angrily
    He lampooned Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden, called for the resignation of Attorney General Edwin Meese, lambasted Bible-thumpers of the Christian right, urged vigilance against the Soviet threat, castigated the Japanese for hunting whales, and defended Jesse Jackson as a viable presidential candidate.
  78. pellucid
    transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
    It was an abbreviated trip—he spent a short time around Fairbanks, then hurried south to get back to Atlanta in time for the start of fall classes—but he had been smitten by the vastness of the land, by the ghostly hue of the glaciers, by the pellucid subarctic sky.
  79. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
    In both photos Chris stares at the lens with the same pensive, recalcitrant squint, as if he’d been interrupted in the middle of an important thought and was annoyed to be wasting his time in front of the camera.
  80. cremate
    reduce to ashes
    Less than twenty-four hours after landing in Fairbanks, Carine and Sam flew on to Anchorage, where Chris’s body had been cremated following the autopsy at the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory.
  81. preeminent
    greatest in importance or degree or significance
    My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scattershot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzsche, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards, the latter a deeply troubled writer and psychiatrist who, before putting an end to his life with a cyanide capsule in 1958, had been one of the preeminent British rock climbers of the day.
  82. inveigle
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
    So I drove as far as Gig Harbor, Washington, abandoned the car, and inveigled a ride on a northbound salmon seiner.
  83. carapace
    hard outer covering or case of certain organisms
    Vast and labyrinthine, the ice cap rides the spine of the Boundary Ranges like a carapace, from which the long blue tongues of numerous glaciers inch down toward the sea under the weight of the ages.
  84. inebriated
    stupefied or excited by a chemical substance
    To a self-possessed young man inebriated with the unfolding drama of his own life, all of this held enormous appeal.
  85. phantasmagoria
    a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images
    Here the glacier spills abruptly over the edge of a high plateau, dropping seaward through a gap between two mountains in a phantasmagoria of shattered ice.
  86. madrigal
    an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices
    A madrigal of creaks and sharp reports—the sort of protest a large fir limb makes when it’s slowly bent to the breaking point—served as a reminder that it is the nature of glaciers to move
  87. chutzpah
    unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity
    In solo climbing the whole enterprise is held together with little more than chutzpah, not the most reliable adhesive.
  88. hector
    be bossy towards
    From elementary school through high school, my siblings and I were hectored to excel in every class, to win medals in science fairs, to be chosen princess of the prom, to win election to student government.
  89. addle
    mix up or confuse
    To a greater and greater degree his life revolved around a self-administered pharmacopoeia of steroids, amphetamines, mood elevators, and painkillers, and the drugs addled his once-formidable mind.
  90. euphoria
    a feeling of great elation
    The euphoria, the overwhelming sense of relief, that had initially accompanied my return to Petersburg faded, and an unexpected melancholy took its place.
  91. factitious
    not produced by natural forces
    I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; ... and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man.
  92. escarpment
    a long steep slope at the edge of a plateau or ridge
    Just sixteen miles to the south, beyond an escarpment of the Outer Range, hundreds of tourists rumble daily into Denali Park over a road patrolled by the National Park Service.
  93. rictus
    a gaping grimace
    Overjoyed, the proud hunter took a photograph of himself kneeling over his trophy, rifle thrust triumphantly over-head, his features distorted in a rictus of ecstasy and amazement, like some unemployed janitor who'd gone to Reno and won a million-dollar jackpot.
  94. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
    Although McCandless was enough of a realist to know that hunting game was an unavoidable component of living off the land, he had always been ambivalent about killing animals.
  95. naivete
    lack of sophistication or worldliness
    But McCandless, in his naivete, relied on the advice of hunters he’d consulted in South Dakota, who advised him to smoke his meat, not an easy task under the circumstances.
  96. adamantly
    inflexibly; unshakably
    He seemed to have moved beyond his need to assert so adamantly his autonomy, his need to separate himself from his parents.
  97. idiosyncratic
    peculiar to the individual
    But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map.
  98. miasma
    unhealthy vapors rising from the ground or other sources
    The beaver ponds are never more than chest deep, but the water is cold, and as we slosh forward, our feet churn the muck on the bottom into a foul-smelling miasma of decomposing slime.
  99. unequivocally
    in an unambiguous manner
    When I’d questioned Gordon Samel and Ken Thompson shortly after they’d discovered McCandless’s body, both men insisted—adamantly and unequivocally—that the big skeleton was the remains of a caribou, and they derided the greenhorn’s ignorance in mistaking the animal he killed for a moose.
  100. hauteur
    overbearing pride with a superior manner toward inferiors
    Some critics have even drawn parallels between McCandless and the Arctic’s most infamous tragic figure, Sir John Franklin, a nineteenth-century British naval officer whose smugness and hauteur contributed to some 140 deaths, including his own.
  101. sobriquet
    a familiar name for a person
    He had been woefully unprepared to lead an Arctic expedition, and upon returning to England, he was known as the Man Who Ate His Shoes—yet the sobriquet was uttered more often with awe than with ridicule.
  102. resilience
    ability of a material to return to its original shape
    He was green, and he overestimated his resilience, but he was sufficiently skilled to last for sixteen weeks on little more than his wits and ten pounds of rice.
  103. disquietude
    feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
    The disquietude he felt on Katahdin’s granite heights inspired some of his most powerful writing and profoundly colored the way he thought thereafter about the earth in its coarse, undomesticated state.
  104. rumination
    a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
    The entries in McCandless’s journal contain few abstractions about wilderness or, for that matter, few ruminations of any kind.
  105. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
    It would be easy to stereotype Christopher McCandless as another boy who felt too much, a loopy young man who read too many books and lacked even a modicum of common sense.
  106. feckless
    not fit to assume responsibility
    McCandless wasn’t some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair.
  107. stature
    the height of a standing person
    Trying to explain McCandless’s unorthodox behavior, some people have made much of the fact that like John Waterman, he was small in stature and may have suffered from a “short man's complex," a fundamental insecurity that drove him to prove his manhood by means of extreme physical challenges.
  108. stymie
    hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
    After his attempt to depart the wilderness was stymied by the Teklanika’s high flow, McCandless arrived back at the bus on July 8.
  109. fecund
    capable of producing offspring or vegetation
    It was the height of summer, the country was a fecund riot of plant and animal life, and his food supply was adequate.
  110. vexing
    extremely annoying or displeasing
    “And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness. . . . And this was most vexing of all,” he noted, “HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.”
  111. sabbatical
    a leave usually taken every seventh year
    It is tempting to regard this latter notation as further evidence that McCandless’s long, lonely sabbatical had changed him in some significant way.
  112. incapacitated
    lacking in or deprived of strength or power
    In order for McCandless to have been incapacitated by potato seeds, he would have had to eat many, many pounds of them; and given the light weight of his pack when Gallien dropped him off, it is extremely unlikely that he carried more than a few grams of potato seeds, if he carried any at all.
  113. emetic
    a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting
    Fortunately, it proved emetic; and her stomach having rejected all that she had swallowed, she was restored to health, though her recovery was for some time doubtful.
  114. unambiguous
    admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding
    Given the alarming, unambiguous entry McCandless had scrawled in his journal on July 30, I found it hard to believe that the enormous quantity of seeds he’d eaten just prior to that date played no role in his death.
  115. conundrum
    a difficult problem
    Over a period of several years I doggedly sifted through the scientific literature, hoping to find a clue that would explain this conundrum.
  116. grueling
    characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
    The damage wasn’t discovered until late July, when a wildlife biologist named Paul Atkinson made the grueling ten-mile bush-whack over the Outer Range, from the road into Denali National Park to the Park Service shelter.
  117. vandalism
    willful and malicious destruction of the property of others
    This looked like somebody had gone at the cabins with a claw hammer and bashed everything in sight. From the size of the fireweed growing up through mattresses that had been tossed outside, it was clear that the vandalism had occurred many weeks earlier.
  118. moniker
    a familiar name for a person
    Recognizing the gravity of his predicament, he had abandoned the cocky moniker he’d been using for years, Alexander Supertramp, in favor of the name given to him at birth by his parents.
  119. beatific
    marked by utter benignity
    One of his last acts was to take a picture of himself, standing near the bus under the high Alaska sky, one hand holding his final note toward the camera lens, the other raised in a brave, beatific farewell.
  120. altimeter
    an instrument that measures the height above ground
    As the altimeter needle brushes five thousand feet, we crest a mud-colored ridge, the earth drops away, and a breathtaking sweep of taiga fills the Plexiglas wind-screen.
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