Short Stories Vocabulary

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Short Stories Vocabulary
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The Cask of Amontillado

• Precluded
• Retribution
• Accosted
• Afflicted
• Explicit
• Recoiling
• Termination
• Subsided

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The Most Dangerous Game

• Palpable
• Indolently
• Bizarre
• Naïve
• Scruples
• Blandly
• Grotesque
• Futile

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

• Rakishly
• Hurtling
• Distraught
• Haggard
• Insolent
• Insinuatingly
• Cur
• Cannonading
• Derisive
• Inscrutable

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The Invalids Story

• Prodigious
• Deleterious
• Ominous
• Judicious
• Placidly
• Desultory

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The Interlopers

• Precipitous
• Marauders
• Medley
• Condolences
• Languor
• Succor

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The Birds

• Placid
• Garish
• Recounted
• Sullen
• Furtively
• Imperative
• Reconnaissance
• Fretful

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The Necklace

• Declassee
• Rueful
• Resplendent
• Disheveled
• Profoundly

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The Scarlet Ibis

• Imminent
• Iridescent
• Vortex
• Infallibility
• Entrails
• Precariously
• Evansced

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The Red-headed League

• Singular
• Avail
• Hoax
• Introspective
• Vex
• Conundrums
• Astuteness
• Formidable

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The Gift of the Magi

• Instigates
• Depreciate
• Cascade
• Chaste
• Meretricious
• Ravages
• Discreet