The Tell Tale Heart - Vocabulary

You should have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work!

Dissimulation means...

• pretending

• cutting up

• dismember

• logical

What was it that vexed the man...

• the soup bowl

• the eye

• the man's riches

• the man's attitudue

An old wise man has a great deal of....

• money

• plot

• sagacity

• jewelry

The man refrained from killing the old man because...

• he was waiting for the police to come

• he was waiting for the eye to be open

• he was annoyed

• he was a psychopath

What two actions did the man take to conceale the body? Mark 2 answers!

• he called the police

• he dismembered the corpse

• he hid the corpse under the floor boards

• he burnt the man

First of all I ____________________the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.

• defended

• disjointed

• dismembered

• disappointed

This word means the same as gestures.

• gesticulations

• symbolization

• causations

• headache

a willingness to take bold risks

or

rude or disrespectful behavior; impudence

• rapacious

• audacity

• sagacity

• tantalize

in a forceful, passionate, or intense manner; with great feeling

• illuminate

• auditory

• facade

• vehemently

contemptuous ridicule or mockery - Hint "Don't you disrespect me young man! Don't you derogate or deride! You're in my world now, not your world. And I've got friends on the other side!"

• procreate

• derision

• illuminate

• hypocritical