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Vicious Vocabulary
Petrifying Plot
Scary Story
100

A verb meaning to destroy completely 

What is annihilate? 

100

This is how the narrator and Roderick know each other. 

What is from being boyhood (childhood) friends?

100
It is revealed that Madeline is this to Roderick. 

What is his twin sister?

200

An adjective meaning very great age

What is antiquity?

200
This is the place Roderick wishes to "temporarily" entomb his sister. 

What is in a vault? 

(below/inside the house)

200

By the end of the story, the Usher house suffers this fate. 

What is collapsing? 

(being destroyed, falling apart, etc.)

300

A noun meaning a long, narrow crack or opening

What is a fissure?

300

As the story progresses, we learn this shocking fact about Madeline's entombment. 

What is she was buried alive?

300
The Usher house and its fate could be a symbol of this. 

What is the mental decline of Roderick? 

(Other potential answers: The decline of the Usher family, the destruction of the Usher twins)

400

A noun meaning the ending or downfall

What is dissolution? 

400
Roderick Usher suffers from mental troubles, which are caused by this.

What is oversensitivity? 

400
The painting of the tomb and the light inside could be a foreshadowing of this. 

What is that Madeline is still alive in her tomb?

(Other possible answers: Roderick's eventual death, heaven's light)

500

A verb meaning a violent or forceful pulling apart of something

What is rending? 

500
This is the fate of Roderick Usher by the story's conclusion. 

What is Roderick dies from shock/fear? 

500

The house starts to affect the narrator in this way. 

What is being more and more paranoid/fearful/erratic?

600

An adjective meaning loud, excited, and emotional

What is tumultuous?

600

While reading to Roderick to try to calm him down, the narrator becomes unsettled by this. 

What is hearing sounds from the story in real life?

600

Usher says this is his biggest fear.


What is being frightened to death? 

(will also accept "fear")