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Poe Vocabulary
Vocabulary Definitions from Poe Literature
| Question | Answer | Question | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connoisseur | Except judge in matters of taste | ||
| Virtuoso | A person that is skilled in music | Sconce | Candle holder |
| Accost | Approach and adress boldly or agressivly | Flambeaux | Torch |
| Implore | Beg someone desperately | Medoc | Red wine |
| Sagacious | Having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; shrewd | August | Respected and impressive |
| Pervade | Spread through and be perceived in every part of | Sojourn | Stay somewhere temporarily |
| Scrutinizing | Examine or inspect closely and thoroughly | Tarn | A small mountain lake. |
| Profuse | Exuberantly plentiful; abundant | Vivacious | Attractively lively and animated. |
| Stupor | S state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility | Insipid | Lacking flavor |
| Demeanor | Outward behavior or bearing | Incubus | A male demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women |
| Obstinate | Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so. | Emaciated | Abnormally thin or weak, esp. because of illness or a lack of food |
| Surcease | Relief or consolation | Obeisance | A gesture expressing deferential respect, such as a bow or curtsy |
| Ghastly | Causing great horror or fear; frightful or macabre | ||
| Palazzo | Palace | ||
| Gaunt | Grim or desolate in appearance. | ||
| Abscond | Escape | ||
| Gesticulation | A gesture | ||
| Catacombs | Underground cemetery | ||
| Fetter | A chain used to restrain prisoners | ||
| Puncheon | Large cask for liquids | ||
| Azure | Bright blue color | ||
| Nepenthe | A drug described in Homer's Odyssey as banishing grief or trouble from a person's mind | ||
| Prodigious | Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree | ||
| Ignoramus | An ignorant or stupid person | ||
| Potency | The power of something to affect the mind or body | ||
| Similitude | The quality or state of being similar to something. | ||
| Pallid | Pale, typically because of poor health. | ||
| Avatar | A manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher. | ||
| Pestilence | A fatal epidemic disease, esp. bubonic plague. | ||
| Contagion | The communication of disease from one person to another by close contact. | ||
| Discernible | Capable of being discerned; distinguishable. | ||
| Cadaverousness | Corpse | ||
| Amontillado | Dry wine | Motley | Diverse |
| Impunity | Exemption from punishment | Notre | Colorless odor. Very cold and flammable and explosive |
| Retribution | To be punished in the right way | Roquelaure | 18th or 19th century knee length coat |
| immolation | Kill by the use of nice words |
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