The Black Cat
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- baroques
- grotesque; something that is so overdone it is "over-the-top"
- brute
- animal; one who hasn't the ability to reason; brutal person
- gallows
- a wooden structureused for hanging criminals; gibbet
- phantasm
- thing seen only in one's imagination
- consummate
- state of perfection; bring to completion
- docility
- easily managed; meek; gentle
- debauch
- to corrupt
- vex
- to anger; to annoy; to irritate
- perverseness
- morally bad; immoral
- intemperance
- excessive (behavior-ex. drinking)
- chimeras
- wild fancy; an absurd or impossible idea (from the Greek she-monster who had the head of a lion, body of a goat, and serpent's tail)
- malevolent
- wishing evil to happen
- odious
- hateful; offensive
- graven
- carved; engraved
- gossamer
- very light and thin
- sagacious
- shrewd; wise
- succinctly
- briefly and clearly
- atrocity
- terrible act
- bas relief
- type of art; three dimensional
- stupefy
- to overwelm with shock or amazement
- apparition
- ghost
- conflagration
- a great and destructive fire
- remorse
- regret
- paltry
- petty; mean
- hogshead
- barrel; cask