Definitions
a temporary stay
What is SOJOURN?
pale; faint or deficient in color
What is PALLID?
What is GLOOM?
bleak, empty
What is DESOLATE?
"I shall ever bear about me a memory of the many ______ hours I thus spent alone with the master of the House of Usher."
What is SOLEMN?
a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression
What is MELANCHOLY?
grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood
What is SOLEMN?
atypical, peculiar
What is ANOMALOUS?
affliction, ailment
What is MALADY?
"To an ________ species of terror I found him a bounden slave."
What is ANOMALOUS?
overpowering wonder or surprise; amazement
What is ASTONISHMENT?
having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination
What is PHANTASMAGORIC?
pasty, pale
What is WAN?
gruesome, macabre
What is MORBID?
"He entered, at some length, into what he conceived to be the nature of his _______."
What is MALADY?
suspended animation and loss of voluntary motion of the limbs
What is CATALEPTICAL?
to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly
What is ANNIHILATE?
appalling, frightful
What is GHASTLY?
apprehension, dismay
What is TREPIDATION?
"I have, indeed, no __________ of danger, except in its absolute effect --in terror."
What is ABHORRENCE?
struck with overwhelming shock or amazement; filled with sudden fright or horror
What is AGHAST?
What is ABHORRENCE?
decrepitude, disrepair
baffling, convoluted
What is PARADOXICAL?
"From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled ______."
What is AGHAST?