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Edgar Allen Poe

The cask of Amontillado, The raven, the tell tale heart

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impunity exemption from punishment
retribution veneance
immolation to destroy or to kill
connoisseurship a person with good taste(in this case, wine)
vintages the year wine is bottled
motley the colored clothing of a court jester
pipe a wine cask
amontillado a pale, dry wine from spain
palazzo a home, palace or , museum(montressor's home)
absconeded to leave in a secret manner
gait the way a person walks
draught a large hurried swallow
MEdoc a red wine
Masons one who builds or works with cemement
Trowel a flat-bladed tool used for leveling cement
catacombs underground cemetaries
Niche a cranny, hollow, or crevice
Fettered chained or shackled feet
Rapier a long, slender, two-edged sword
acute sharp; sensitive
vexed disturbed or annoyed
sagacity intelligence and good judgement
audCITY BOLDNESS
wary cautious
suavity smoothness; politness
venemently forcefully;passionitly
geticulaitons energetic gestures
derision contempt;ridicule
quaint odd, singular, old-fashioned
lore tradtional knowledge
ember smoldering fragment of wood
wrought caused to happen
implore ask for
entreating seeking
lattice framing or window panes
obeisance bowing as a sign of reverence
ebony dark colored
fancy imagination
decorum formality
contenance face
craven coward
Ghastly horrible
fowl bird
discourse conversation
relevancy significance
placid calm
aptly competently
dirges funeral songs
melancholy sad, gloomy
divining speculating, conjecturing
gloating exulting, celebrating
conser a container in which incense is burned
wretch scoundrel,miscreant
respite repose and rest
Quaff drink
tempest storm
radiant bright
fiend demon or a villian
plume feather tuft
pallid pale
refrained held back
Mould sculpture produced by moulding
Created by: 17hugher
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