The Tell-Tale Heart
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- profound
- wise; intellectually deep
- Death watches
- small beetles that live in wood and make a ticking sound
- stifled
- muffled; smothered
- mockery
- person or thing made fun of
- cunningly
- slyly
- acute
- sharp; sensitive
- tattoo
- rhythmic, rapid tapping
- pitch
- blackness; the black, sticky substanceformed from distilling tar
- vexed
- disturbed; annoyed; irritated
- stealthily
- slow, deliberate, and secret in action or character
- enveloped
- wrapped up
- anxiety
- worrry
- hideous
- very ugly or frightening
- audacity
- boldness; daring
- fluently
- easily
- concieved
- thought of; imagined
- sagacity
- keen and far-sighted understanding and judgement; shrewdness; wisdom
- vain
- without success; useless
- trifle
- unimportant thing
- mortal
- fatal; causing death
- hypocritical
- false; not sincere