Edgar Allan Poe Vocabulary

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Quality of wisdom; intelligence

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Sagacity

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Disturbing, horrifying due to death or injury

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Macabre

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mentally ill; insane

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demented

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Feeling of pensive sadness

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Melancholy

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Punishment as vengeance

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Retribution

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Unreliable narrator

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Narrator with compromised credibility

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To annoy someone, especially over trivial matters

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vex

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to listen

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harken

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Concealment of thoughts, feelings, or character

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Dissimulation

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Genre emphasizing intense emotion, fear, terror, death

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Gothic Literature