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Vocabulary: The Most Dangerous Game and Scarlet Ibis
Vocab for the two short stories
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English
9th Grade
09/05/2012

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palpable
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(adj) able to be touched or felt
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indolently
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(adv) lazily; idly
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amenity
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(n) a desirable or useful feature of facility of a building or place
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condone
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(v) accept and allow (behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive) to continue allow
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naive
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(adj) unsophisticated
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scruple
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(n) misgiving about something one feels is wrong
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droll
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(adj) curious or unusual in a way of that provokes dry amusement
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solicitous
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(adj) characterized by or showing interest or concern
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ennui
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(n) boredom
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venerable
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(adj) accorded a great deal of respect, esp because of age, wisdom, or character
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futile
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(adj) useless, hopeless
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cosmopolite
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(n) person at home in all parts of the world
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debacle
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(n) nbad defeat
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zealous
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(adj) having or showing eagerness
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affable
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(adj) friendly, good-natured, easy to talk to
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tangible
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(adj) perceptible by touch
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quarry
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(n) an animal pursues by a hunter, hound, predatory mammal, or bird of prey
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rank
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(adj) (of vegetation) growing too thickly and coarsely
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billow
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(v) (of fabric) fill with air and swell outward
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vortex
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(n) center of a situation, which draws in all that surround it
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infallibility
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(n) condition of being unable to fail
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reiterate
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(v) say something again or a number of times, typically for emphasis or clarity
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solder
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(v) to mend or repair
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evanescence(d)
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(v) faded away
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vermilion
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(n) brilliant scarlet red
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