Vocabulary One
“A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite” (Poe 5).
What is to chain in shackles?
“In niche, and finding an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock, stood stupidly bewildered” (Poe 5).
What is a shallow recess, especially on a wall to display a statue or ornament?
“I looked at him in surprise. He repeated the movement — a grotesque one” (Poe 4).
What is repulsive, ugly, disfigured?
“A draught of this Medoc will defend us from the damps” (Poe 3).
What is a type of wine?
“Thus speaking, Fortunato possessed himself of my arm; and putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo” (Poe 2).
What is a large mansion?
“He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine” (Poe 1).
What is an expert in a particular subject?
“Unsheathing my rapier, I began to grope with it about the recess; but the thought of an instant reassured me” (Poe 6).
What is a sword with a long blade?
“‘It is this,’” I answered, producing from beneath the folds of my roquelaire a trowel (Poe 5).
What is a hand tool with a flat blade?
“His eyes flashed with a fierce light. He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand” (Poe 4).
What is a gesture or motion?
“He turned towards me, and looked into my eves with two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication” (Poe 3).
What is a watery discharge from the eyes/nose?
“The man wore motley” (Poe 1).
What is a two-toned jester costume?
“A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser” (Poe 1).
What is punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act?
“I did this, and the clamorer grew still” (Poe 6).
What is a person making a loud noise?
“The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones” (Poe 6).
What is to listen to?
“I broke and reached him a flagon of De Grave” (Poe 4).
What is a type of wine?
“There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honour of the time” (Poe 3).
What is to leave in a hurry or secretive manner?
“For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity, to practise imposture upon the British and Austrian millionaires” (Poe 1).
What is pretending to be something in order to deceive or fool others?
“...the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity” (Poe 1).
What is to be exempt from punishment of freedom from any consequences someone would have experienced?
“No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within” (Poe 7).
What is a narrow opening?
“‘You are not of the masons’” (Poe 5).
What is the Freemasons or Masons, are an international fraternal organization, or club, whose members learn secret handshakes and signs to prove their membership?
“We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs. I paused again, and this time I made bold to seize Fortunato by an arm above the elbow” (Poe 4).
What is a large container of wine?
“Thus speaking, Fortunato possessed himself of my arm; and putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo” (Poe 2).
What is a long cloak?
“Few Italians have the true virtuoso Spirit” (Poe 1).
What is someone who is artistically talented or skilled?
“At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk” (Poe 1).
What is to prevent something from happening?
“In pace requiescat” (Poe 7).
What is rest in peace?
“It seemed to have been constructed for no especial use within itself, but formed merely the interval between two of the colossal supports of the roof of the catacombs, and was backed by one of their circumscribing walls of solid granite” (Poe 5).
What is to restrict something within limitations?
"Nemo me impune lacessit" (Poe 4).
What is no one attacks me with impunity?
“The vaults are insufferably damp. They are encrusted with nitre” (Poe 2).
What is a mineral, which forms a white web-like coating on the catacomb walls?
“I continued, as was my wont to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation” (Poe 1).
What is death as a sacrifice?
The author of "Cask of Amontillado" is...
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?