"The Most Dangerous Game"

The flashcards are the words you need to know for Friday's test. Below the flash cards are other words you won't be tested on as vocab., but they're essential for understanding the story.

Know:

• spelling
• definition
• part of speech

Here are some terms/words you may not know:

• brier: a pipe
• czar: an emperor of Russia (before 1917)
• Crimea: a peninsula in the Ukraine
• solicitously: acting with attention to the needs of
• others
• astrakhan: curly fur of very young lambs
• Cossacks: a group from Ukraine--fierce warriors
• refectory table: a long, narrow table
• Monte Carlo: a gambling resort
• Ganges: river in India
• knouter: one who uses a knout (a leather whip)
• Tartar: a Turkish ethnic group stereotyped as

          being violent and unmanageable

• Lascars: East Indian sailors employed on European ships
• Malacca: present day Malaysia
• Malay mancatcher: A dead tree is balanced against a living one; a trigger is set. When trigger is activated, tree falls and causes harm.