Tell Tale Heart Vocabulary Set

sagacity

• foresight, discernment, or keen perception; ability to make good judgments

• misleading; confusing; altered

• firmly determined to do something

• the action of hiding something or preventing it from being known

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

audacity

• a willingness to take bold risks

• ridicule or mockery

• respect

• praise

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4B

derision

• a willingness to take bold risks

• contemptuous ridicule or mockery

• respect

• praise

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

The concealment of someone's feelings or thoughts -

• acuteness

• audacity

• dissimulation

• derision

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4B

“There entered three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect suavity, as officers of the police.”

"Sauvity" means--

• deceptiveness and lying

• in an official manner

• coming in waves

• Smooth, polished, sophisticated

  manner

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

The man made wild _________________ with his hands when he was trying to describe the accident to the police.

• gesticulations

• wary

• derision

• audacity

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

small beams of wood -

• Hinges

• Cunningly

• Scantlings

• Vex

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4B

What is the synonym for vexed?

• sharp

• planning

• frustrated

• foresight

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5B

To Listen

• Cunningly

• Resolved

• Hearken

• Vex

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.8.4A

Supposition

• sound judgement (good judgement); wisdom

• an uncertain belief; an assumption

• to annoy or disturb

• listen

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4B