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Tell-Tale Vocab
Term | Definition |
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acute | sharp, keen |
conceived | thought of |
vex | disturb, annoy |
stifled | smothered |
dissimulation | hiding one’s true feelings |
sagacity | sound judgment, intelligence |
death watches | beetles that making a tapping sound with their head |
crevice | crack |
stealthly | cautiously, secretly |
tattoo | drumming sound |
waned | approached its end |
scatlings | small, wooden floor beams |
suavity | smooth courteousness |
audacity | shameless daring or boldness |
Vehemently | with intense emotion |
derision | ridicule |
hypocritical | false or deceptive; a person pretending to be what he or she is not |
reposed | rested |
gesticulations | energetic gestures of the hands or arms |
dissemble | pretend |