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Tell-Tale Heart Voc.
Tell-Tale Heart Poecab.
Term | Definition |
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acute | (adj.) sensitive to details; sharp, quick, keen, and perceptive |
audacity | (n.) shameless boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety. syn: recklessness |
depute | (v.) to assign or appoint as a representative syn: nominate, empower |
derision | (n.) mockery, ridicule syn: taunting; searing, insult, teasing |
dissimulation | (n.) dishonesty or concealment of one's real thoughts or character syn: dishonesty, pretense; pretend, deceive, masquerade |
gesticulation | (n.) animated or excited gestures |
lucid | (adj.) easily understood, clear; rational, sane syn: coherent, comprehensible |
profound | (adj.) 1. having deep insight or understanding 2. being or going far beneath what is superficial, external, or obvious; smart |
recusant | (n.) someone who refuses to follow rules or conform to customs and traditions. syn: rebel, deviant |
sagacity | (n.) wisdom; shrewdness, soundness of perspective |
suavity | (n.) agreeableness or politeness, courtesy; charm and sophistication syn: diplomacy, pleasantness |
supposition | (n.) an assumption, hypothesis based on little evidence syn: belief, suspicion, hunch |
vehemently | (adv.) in a manner that is strongly emotional; intense or passionate syn: intensely |
vex | (v.) to irritate, annoy; confuse, puzzle syn: bother, plague, afflict, irk; perplex, perturb |
wane | (v.) to decrease gradually syn: dwindle, flag, fade, shrink, diminish |
wary | (adj.) careful, cautious syn: watchful, vigilant, alert, guarded, suspicious |
hearken | (v.) to listen |
stifled | (adj.) suppressed or held back; smothered or suffocated; muted, muffled, restrained; deadened |
stealthily | (adv.) quietly and cautiously syn: furtively, secretly, surreptitiously, covertly |
hypocritical | (adj.) behaving in a way that suggests one has higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case. syn: fraudulent, deceitful, insincere, phony |
dissemble | (v.) to hide your real motives, feelings, or beliefs |