Tell tale heart and black cat vocab
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26 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 hearken | to listen |
| foresight | seeing ahead |
| dissimulation | to disguise |
| vexed | to be annoyed |
| sagacity | wisdom |
| suppositions | to assume |
| stealthily | in a secretive or sneaky manner |
| acuteness | intelligence, keen wit, cleverness |
| concealment | means of hiding |
| scantlings | floor boards |
| suavity | Smoothness; politeness |
| bade | to command; order; direct |
| audacity | boldness |
| reposed | rested/non living |
| gesticulations | energetic hand or arm movements |
| allusion | indirect reference |
| anomalous | Abnormal, irregular |
| aversion | a feeling of intense dislike |
| chimera | fire-breathing monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail or a fantasy |
| conflagration | a big fire |
| debauchery | wild living; excessive intemperance |
| docile | easily handled or managed |
| equivocal | hazy |
| expedient | appropriate to a purpose |
| felicitous | appropriate, well chosen |
| forbearance | patience |
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