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Words from "The Cruelest Sport"
AP-Quality words from the passage by Joyce Carol Oates
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English
12th Grade
04/10/2016

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brutish
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savagely violent
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Remunerative
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Financially rewarding; lucrative
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Ambiguous
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Open to more than one interpretation
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Ingenuity
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The quality of being clever, original, and inventive
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Analogue
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A person or thing seen as comparable to another
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Delirium
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A disturbed state of mind; madness; insanity
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Expendable
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Designed to be used only once and then thrown away
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Impoverished
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Reduced to poverty
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Putative
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Supposed; presumed
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Eradicating
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Destroying completely; putting an end to
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Pious
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Devoutly religious
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Vis-a-vis
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Regarding; concerning; related to
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Acutely
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In a way that shows perceptive understanding or insight
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Campy
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Ridiculous; laughable
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Alleviate
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To make less severe; to ease; to relieve
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Anachronistic
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Relating to something that is not in its correct historical or chronological time
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Mythopoeic
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Related to the making of myths
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Implicit
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Implied; hinted at
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Prodigious
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Colossal; larger-than-life
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Ominous
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Giving the impression that something bad is going to happen; unpromising; unfavorable
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Eludes
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Evades; avoids; dodges
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Scrupulous
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Careful; thorough; rigorous
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Idiosyncrasies
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Behaviors thought to be peculiar to an individual
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Visceral
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Relating to feelings rather than intellect
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Quotidian
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Occurring every day; daily
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Repudiated
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Refused to be associated with
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Incendiary
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Designed to cause fires; combustible; trouble-making; rabble-rousing
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Ingloriously
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Shamefully; dishonorably
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Elegiac
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Mournful; sad; sorrowful
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Insouciance
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Casual lack of concern; indifference
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