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