Name: ____________________________________ HOUR: ______ “The Most Dangerous Game” VOCABULARY WORDS – P.

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Directions: Use Literature book, dictionary or phone to look up DEFINTION for each VOCABULARY WORD and write it on the space below.
Then, use the VOCABULARY WORD and write YOUR SENTENCE or draw MEMORY PICTURE.
LEARNING TARGET: determine the meaning of words as they are used in a text (RL9.4)
Due on ______________QUIZ day for 10 POINTS
VOCABULARY WORD DEFINITION BOOK EXAMPLE YOUR SENTENCE or MEMORY
PICTURE
“… the moss was lacerated; one patch of
1. Lacerated weeds was stained crimson” (219).

2. Scruples “But I think I can show you that

your scruples are quite ill founded" (225).

3. Debacle "After the debacle in Russia I left the country,

for it was imprudent for an officer of the Czar to
stay there” (223).

“Half apologetically General Zaroff said, "We do

4. Amenities our best to preserve the amenities of
civilization here” (221).

“One does not expect nowadays to find a young

5. Naive man of the educated
class, even in America, with such a naive…”
(225).
“He was solicitous about the state of
6. Solicitous Rainsford's health” (228).

“He was finding the general a most thoughtful

7. Affable and affable host, a true cosmopolite” (222).

"Can't see it," remarked Rainsford, trying to

8. Dank peer through the dank tropical night that was
palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness
in upon the yacht” (215).
"Can't see it," remarked Rainsford, trying to
9. Palpable peer through the dank tropical night that
was palpable as it pressed its thick warm
blackness in upon the yacht” (215).
10.Grotesque “The lights from the windows sent a flickering
illumination that made grotesque patterns on
the courtyard below…” (227).

11.Futile “He saw that straight flight was futile; inevitably

it would bring him face to face with the sea”
(230).

12.Palatial “His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of

a palatial chateau…” (219).

13.Ennui “To Rainsford's questioning glance the general

said, " Ennui”...”(228)

14.Perils “What perils that tangle of trees and

underbrush might hold for him did not concern
Rainsford just then” (218).

15.Quarry “I suppose the first three shots I heard was

when the hunter flushed his quarry and
wounded
it” (219).

16.Menacing “The menacing look in the eyes did not

change” (220).

“Even so zealous a hunter as General Zaroff

17.Zealous could not trace him there…” (230).

“Rainsford, reclining in a steamer chair,

18.Indolently indolently puffed on his
favorite brier” (217).

“He filled Rainsford's glass

19.Venerable with venerable Chablis from a dusty bottle”
(228).

20.Opaqueness “Jagged crags appeared to jut up into the

opaqueness…” (218).