Tell Tale Heart Vocab

the hiding of one’s feelings or purposes

• dissemble

• subterfuge

• dissimulation

• sagacity

sorrowful

• morose

• gloomy

• pitiful

• mournful

a narrow opening

• ledge

• crevice

• niche

• crevasse

Premises

• thought of; imagined
• a building and the area of land that surrounds it

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

Stimulate

• obtaining what you want through deceit
• to cause or encourage something to happen

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Audacity

• a building and the area of land that surrounds it
• shameless daring or boldness

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Acute

• highly developed
• to cause or encourage something to happen

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

vehemently

• intense

• create

• deceptive

• annoy

vex

• annoy

• intense

• strongly

• think of

Dissimulation means _____________

• Putting on a false appearance that hides true feelings

• extremely

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

CCSS.RI.8.4