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Poe vocabulary

QuestionAnswer
Amontillado a variety of Sherry, expensive wine
Impunity Exemption from punishment or loss or escape from fines
Retributuion Punishment that is considered to be morally right and fully deserved
Immolation to sacrifice, to kill by fire
Connoisseur a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgement an a art, expert in some kind
Virtuoso a special knowledge or skill in field
Accost to confront boldly
Motley mixed, variety
Nitre keeping things cold
Roquelaire long code
Palazzo palace
Abscond hide or stow away, running away
Sconce a bracket for candles or other lights
Flambeaux torch
Catacombs an underground cemetery
Medoc a wine-growing region i Gironde, in SW France
Azure the blue of the clear water
Puncheon a large cask of varying capacity
Gesticulation an animated or excited gesture
Ignoramus fool, know-nothing
Fetter Chang
Implore beging
Avatar Chiefly
Pestilence a fatal epidemic desease
Sagacious having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement
August respected, impressive
Contagion Speed of disease from one person to another with close contact
Pervade spread through out
Sojourn short stay
Discernible noticeable
Scrutinizing used as carefully observant
Tarn small but deep mountain lake
Cadaverousness paleness or gauntness, as a corpse
Profuse abundant
vivacious cheerful, lively
pallid pale
Stupor state of mental dullness; loss of senses
insipid bland; without flavor
similitude likeness
demeanor behavior; conduct
incubus nightmare
potency strength; power
obstinate stubborn
emaciated unusually thin
prodigios of great size and power
surcease an end
Obeisance gesture of respect and subservience
Nepenthe a sleeping postion that people once believed would relive pain and sorrow
ghastly suggestive of or resembling ghosts
Gaunt thin and bony
Created by: jrosenmeyer
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