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short story vocab
the most dangerous game
Question | Answer |
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amenities | pleasant ways, polite acts |
bizarre | odd in appearance |
blandly | in a mild and soothing manner |
chateau | a mansion as luxurioud as a palace |
cosmopolite | person at home in all parts of the world |
debacle | bad defeat, a defeat for upperclass russions like himself |
deplorable | regrettable |
disarming | able to remove anger or suspician |
futile | useless, hopeless |
gargoyle | strange and disorted animal from projecting from a building |
grotesque | having a strange bizarre design |
imprudent | very rude and insolent |
indolently | lazily |
naive | having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature |
opiate | any medical preparation to dull pain |
palatial | fit for a palace |
palpable | able to be touched or felt |
scruples | misgivings about something one feels is wrong |
precarioudly | dependent on circumstances beyond ones control |
solicitously | anxious or concerned |