The Most Dangerous Game

amenity

"We do our best to provide the amenities of civilization here."

• sharp, rocky cliff

• something that brings comfort

• threatening or dangerous

• dining room

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

crag

With his remaining strength he dragged himself from the swirling waters. Jagged crags appeared to jut up.

• cliff or bluff

• palace or castle

• wealthy snob from a cultured family

• distant

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

lore

Even cannibals wouldn't live in such a God-forsaken place. But it's gotten into sailor lore, somehow. Didn't you notice that the crew's nerves seemed a bit jumpy today?"

• a person who eats humans

• dangerous or threatening

• traditional stories

• Someone from southern Russia

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

chateau

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. His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set on a high bluff.

• something that provides comfort

• kind, friendly, thoughtful

• crowded, full, close together

• castle-type house

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

mirage

"Mirage," thought Rainsford. But it was no mirage, he found, when he opened the tall spiked iron gate.

• a castle-type house

• crowded, close-together, full

• imaginary sight

• dining room area

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

dense

Dense jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs.

• threatening, dangerous

• Russian

• rocky cliffs

• close-together, crowded

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

peril

What perils that tangle of trees and underbrush might hold for him did not concern Rainsford just then.

• palace or castle

• traditional stories

• educated, cultured, intelligent

• dangers or threats

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

affable

He was finding the general a most thoughtful and affable host.

• kind, generous, friendly

• wealthy through inheritance, snobbish

• threatening

• moving away, distant

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

menace

The menacing look in the eyes did not change. The revolver pointing as rigidly as if the giant were a statue.

• full of culture and world experience

• kind, friendly, thoughtful

• rocky cliff

• dangerous or threatening

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

forbidding

"Where there are pistol shots, there are men. Where there are men, there is food," he thought. But what kind of men, he wondered, in so forbidding a place?

• rich and wealthy

• multi-cultured

• imaginary

• threatening

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3