bragging right - "No animal had a chance with me any more. That is no BOAST; it is a mathematical certainty., overcome - The general smiled the quiet smile of one who has faced an obstacle and SURMOUNTED it with success. "I had to invent a new animal to hunt," he said., prey - No other hunting compares with it for an instant. Every day I hunt, and I never grow bored now, for I have a QUARRY with which I can match my wits.", characteristics - `What are the ATTRIBUTES of an ideal quarry?' And the answer was, of course, `It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason."', grotesque - "I can't believe you are serious, General Zaroff. This is a GRISLY joke.", in a questioning way - The general laughed with entire good nature. He regarded Rainsford QUIZZICALLY., give permission for - "Did not make me CONDONE cold-blooded murder," finished Rainsford stiffly., jester or entertainer; a buffoon - Laughter shook the general. "How extraordinarily DROLL you are!", innocent - "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., hesitant to do something that one thinks is wrong - "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.",

The Most Dangerous Game Vocab. lines 95-118

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