English 1-2 - The Cask of Amontillado - Vocabulary

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Injuries ("The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could...")

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Damage or harm done to or suffered by a person or thing

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Impunity in the context: "I must not only punish, but punish with impunity"

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Exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm

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Immolation (in the phrase "...that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation")

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Destruction; being killed

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Imposed (as in "You have been imposed upon")

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Forced on another or others

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Catacombs

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Underground cemetery

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"Orbs" in the sentence: "...looked into my eyes with two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication"

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Eyes

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"You are not of the masons"

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One who builds or works with stone or brick

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"flambeaux" in the phrase: "...the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame"

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A lighted torch

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"Promiscuously" in the sentence: "...bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth"

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Casually; randomly

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Immolation

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Destruction; being killed