“The Most Dangerous Game” Vocabulary



“The Most Dangerous Game” Vocabulary

Directions: You will practice the skill of using context clues to help you decipher what the vocabulary words are. Once you are done, you will be given the actual definition to see how well you guessed.

1. "Can't see it," remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.

What do you think palpable means? ______________________________________________________________

Actual definition of palpable____________________________________________________________________

2. "Maybe. But sometimes I think sailors have an extra sense that tells them when they are in danger. Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing--with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil…”

What do you think tangible means? ______________________________________________________________

Actual definition of tangible____________________________________________________________________

3. Rainsford, reclining in a steamer chair, indolently puffed on his favorite brier (a pipe made of brierroot.).

What do you think indolently means? ____________________________________________________________

Actual definition of indolently___________________________________________________________________

4. With his remaining strength he dragged himself from the swirling waters. Jagged crags appeared to jut up into the opaqueness; he forced himself upward, hand over hand.

What do you think crags means? _________________________________________________________________

Actual definition of crags_______________________________________________________________________

What do you think opaqueness means? ____________________________________________________________

Actual definition of opaqueness__________________________________________________________________

5. Some wounded thing--by the evidence, a large animal--had thrashed about in the underbrush; the jungle weeds were crushed down and the moss was lacerated; one patch of weeds was stained crimson.

What do you think crimson means? _______________________________________________________________

Actual definition of crimson_____________________________________________________________________

6. But as he forged along he saw to his great astonishment that all the lights were in one enormous building--a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom.

What do you think lofty means? _________________________________________________________________

Actual definition of lofty_______________________________________________________________________

7. The first thing Rainsford's eyes discerned was the largest man Rainsford had ever seen--a gigantic creature, solidly made and black bearded to the waist.

What do you think discerned means? _____________________________________________________________

Actual definition of discerned___________________________________________________________________

8. There was a medieval magnificence about it; it suggested a baronial hall of feudal times with its oaken panels, its high ceiling, its vast refectory tables where twoscore (40) men could sit down to eat.

What do you think baronial means? ______________________________________________________________

Actual definition of baronial____________________________________________________________________

9. He was a very rich man with a quarter of a million acres in the Crimea, and he was an ardent sportsman.

What do you think ardent means? _______________________________________________________________

Actual definition of ardent_____________________________________________________________________

10. "After the debacle in Russia I left the country, for it was imprudent for an officer of the Czar to stay there…”

What do you think imprudent means? ____________________________________________________________

Actual definition of imprudent___________________________________________________________________

11. "How extraordinarily droll you are!" he said. "One does not expect nowadays to find a young man of the educated class, even in America, with such a naive, and, if I may say so, mid-Victorian point of view…”

What do you think droll means? _______________________________________________________________

Actual definition of droll_____________________________________________________________________

12. "Dear me," said the general, quite unruffled, "again that unpleasant word. But I think I can show you that your scruples are quite ill founded."

What do you think scruples means? ______________________________________________________________

Actual definition of scruples_____________________________________________________________________

13. "To date I have not lost," he said. Then he added, hastily: "I don't wish you to think me a braggart, Mr. Rainsford…”

What do you think braggart means? ______________________________________________________________

Actual definition of braggart____________________________________________________________________

14. "Ah, indeed?" the general inquired solicitously.

What do you think solicitously means? ____________________________________________________________

Actual definition of solicitously__________________________________________________________________

15. I drink to a foeman worthy of my steel--at last.

What do you think foeman means? _______________________________________________________________

Actual definition of foeman_____________________________________________________________________

16. He saw that straight flight was futile; inevitably it would bring him face to face with the sea.

What do you think futile means? _________________________________________________________________

Actual definition of futile_______________________________________________________________________

17. Rainsford had dug himself in (while) in France when a second's delay meant death. That had been a placid pastime compared to his digging now.

What do you think placid means? _______________________________________________________________

Actual definition of placid_____________________________________________________________________

Prediction: Based on the sentences above, what do you think ”The Most Dangerous Game” will be about? (2-3 sentences)

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