Edgar Allen Poe Vocab
Terms
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- Chamber
- A room, usually in a house
- Ominous
- Pretending evil of harm
- Surcease
- Stop; come to an end
- Gallows
- Raised wooden structure used to hang criminals
- Loathing
- hatred
- Rigorous
- Difficult; hard
- Stupefied
- To shock; surprise
- Succinctly
- Brief and clear
- Narrative
- Related to story telling; in the form of a story
- Dissimulation
- Pretense; deceit
- Audacity
- Rude boldness
- Enveloped
- surround
- Vex
- Torment or upset
- Dismembered
- Cut apart
- Menace
- Threatens
- Pendulum
- A heavy weight, that hangs from a fixed point and swings back and forth
- Mad
- not crazy
- Fiend
- An evil person; monster
- Ravenous
- Very hungry
- Surcingle
- Strap or belt around a horse's body to keep a saddle, blanket orsack in place
- Swoon
- Faint
- Inquisitorial
- Curious; prying
- Condemned
- Pronounced guilty of a crime or wrong; convict