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Book Summary For Into Thin Air

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  • Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6 Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4 Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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A vocabulary word list for Into Thin Air is arranged by chapter

  • Introduction:
    ascent, expedition, rogue, mull, depletion, disconcerting, compulsion, protagonist, gnaw, catharsis, roil, leach, intrinsically, sherpa, trekker
  • Chapter One: pp. 5-12: cordon, excruciating, gangrenous, heed, gaggle, innocuous, convection, cornice, serrated, abyss, notorious, rappel, queue, throng, hypoxically, hunker, banal, tendril, benign, dally, apex
  • Chapter Two: pp.13-33:
    accretion, escarpment, refraction, plumb-line, appellation, terrestrial, connoisseur, formidable, arduous, quip, zeal, strenuous, undulate, visceral, daunting, audacious, bivouac, resonate, machismo, aesthetics, calamitous, monsoon, parvenu, profane, frangible, rime, escapade
  • Chapter Three: pp. 37-49:
    incisor, frenetic, raconteur, castigate, venerate, edema, crevasse, behemoth, capacious, taciturn, garrulous
  • Chapter Four: pp. 53-72:
    scathing, enigma, scrim, affable, oscillate, ambrosial, succumb, monochromatic, protocol, inconsolably
  • Chapter Five: pp. 75-91:
    pinnacle, moraine, gregarious, fastidious, peripatetic, cajole, apoplectic, meager
  • Chapter Six: pp. 95-110:
    foray, debilitating, quintessential, distal, gargantuan, plummet, coherent
  • Chapter Seven: pp.113-129:
    myriad, proliferation, jeopardize, effusive, loquacious, fortuitous, grueling, stipulate, rescind, relinquish
  • Chapter Eight: pp.133-154:
    squalor, countenance, clamor, malicious, effervescent, reprehensible, infirmity, ambivalence, claustrophobia, sputum, languish, ebullient, opulent, humongous, proprieties, dilettante, eminent, ostentatious, oblivious, epitomize
  • Chapter Nine: pp. 157-171:
    fetid, caustic, unstintingly, amulet, entreaty, animistic, venerate, mélange, triumvirate
  • Chapter Ten: pp. 175-186:
    inherent, fallacy, lucre, rile
    hosanna, irrefutable
  • Chapter Twelve: pp. 209-225:
    lethargic, antipodal, cohorts, fusillade, ocher-hued, schist, peripheral, augur, supine, abate, phantasmal, obviate, promontory, precipitous, fanfare, accrual
  • Chapter Thirteen: pp. 229-241:
    sporadic, abscess, potent, deferential, jostle, nub, jettison, precarious, hypoxia
  • Chapter Fourteen: pp. 245-259:
    pugnacious, ambient, flummox, lament, cognitive, obstinacy, fritz, impede, exacerbate, invincible, strait, abdicate, lacerate, decree, wane, plume, protuberance, inertia
  • Chapter Fifteen: pp. 263-280:
    malice, demeanor, profligate, deleterious, coalesce, lee, maw
  • Chapter Sixteen: pp. 283-288:
    tranquility
  • Chapter Seventeen: pp. 291-306:
    congenitally, advocacy, founder, cajole
  • Chapter Eighteen: pp. 309-313:
    none
  • Chapter Nineteen: pp. 319-332:
    gyre, entrophy, insensate, carapace, rancor, rictus
  • Chapter Twenty: pp. 335-342:
    untrammeled
  • Chapter Twenty-one: pp. 347-364: august, predacious, gauntlet, redolent, fecundity, penumbra, hubris
  • Epilogue: pp. 367-374:
    ostracize, wrath
  • Postscript: pp. 377-397:
    nefarious, esoteric, equivocation, neophyte, strident, imbroglio

    Thank you, Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer