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most dangerous game&cask of amantillado
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English
9th Grade
12/06/2010

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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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Quarry
Definition
drove his prey into the open
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Gargoyle
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n. starnge and distorted animal projecting from a building
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Astrakha
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n. fur made from baby lambs
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Cossack
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Member of a people from southern Russia, famous for their fierceness
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bizarre
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adj. odd in appearence
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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. bad defeat
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Naive
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adj. unsophisticated
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Scruples
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n. Misgiving about something one feels is wrong
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Blandly
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adv. In a mild and soothing manner
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Grotesque
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adj. Having a strange, bizarre design
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Futile
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adj. Useless, hopeless
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Amontillado
Definition
a pale dry sherry (n)
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Impunity
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Freedom from consequences (n)
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Precluded
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Prevented; made impossible in advance(v)
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Retribution
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Payback; punishment for a misdeed or reward for a good dead (n)
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Accosted
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greeted, espesially in a forward or aggressive way (v)
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Immolation
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Destrustion (n)
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Virtuoso
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Masterly skill in a particular field (adj)
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Mottley
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A clowns miscolored costume (n)
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Afflicted
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suffering or sickened (v)
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Explicit
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Clearly stated (adj)
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Recoiling
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staggering back (v)
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Masons
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The freemasons, an international secret society
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subsided
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settled down; became less active or intense (v)
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termination
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end (n)
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