Quizlet The Cask of Amontillado

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  1. absconded: to depart
  2. Amontillado: a dry sherry
  3. avenger: person who seeks revenge for a wrongdoing
  4. catacombs: underground passages usually used
  5. connoisseur: an expert at something-art connoisseur, music connoisseur, ect.
  6. fancy: imagination
  7. fettered: chained up or tied down
  8. flambeaux: lighted torches for burials
  9. gait: the way one walks
  10. immolation: sacrifice
  11. impunity: freedom from punishment
  12. Medoc: a wine
  13. motley: a clown's multicolored costume
  14. niter: potassium nitrate
  15. palazzo: a large home especially in Italy
  16. pipe: a large barrel
  17. precluded: made impossible in advance
  18. rapier: two-edged sword
  19. retribution: deserved punishment
  20. unredressed: not set right