“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell Vocabulary Words

dread

dank

palpable

cannibal

tangible

muffle

mystify

recede

doggedly

extremity

vitality

jagged

dense

peril

flounder

lacerate

bleak

palatial

chateau

bluff

menacing

cultivated

aristocrat

medieval

feudal

refectory

modesty

ardent

cavalry

debacle

imprudent

analytical

surmount

bewilderment

grisly

Puritan

scruples

barbarous

elude

invariably

braggart

grotesque

stealthy

sallow

solicitous

ennui

thicket

venerable

futile

intricate

zealous

apprehensive

tapestry

pungent

uncanny

precariously

protruding

mocking

placid

cower