Tell-Tale Heart Vocabulary

What does conceive mean?

• to come up with, imagine

• to annoy or confuse

• smother it

• narrow crack

What does vex mean?

• it is a type of cereal

• to annoy or confuse

• awful drumming

• to pretend

What is dissimulation?

• a hiding of ones true feelings

• to come up with, imagine

• the person is deceptive or fasle

• virtual reality

What is a sagacity?

• jeering laughter or ridicule

• the attitude the speaker takes toward the subject

• small wooden beams supporting the floor

• sounds judgement

what does the word stifle mean?

• smother it

• to ignore a question

• to be very still

• marked by intense force or emotion

A crevice is a narrow crack.

• True

• False

What is suspense?

• a state or feeling of relaxed and content about what may happen

• a state or feeling of despair or saddness about what may happen

• a state or feeling of excitement or anxious uncertainty about what may happen

• a state or feeling of electric or exubrant about what may happen

What is a hellish tattoo?

• someone with a really weird tattooo

• awful drumming

• a tattoo a devil

• awful singing

What are scantlings?

• a word my mom calls me when she is mad

• large wooden beams

• a type of foriegn currency

• small wooden beams supporting the floor

What is suavity?

• someone with swag

• someone who is cool

• someone with graceful politeness

• someone is false or deceptive