Tell Tale Heart Vocabulary

Anything was more tolerable than this derision!

• death

• contempt

• respect

• compliment

I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer!

• hyperactive

• honesty

• real and genuine

• acting contradictory

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

• rudeness

• deception

• impoliteness

• graciousness

 I talked more vehemently, but the noise steadily increased.

• intense and forceful

• meek and mild

• calm and gentle

• stutter and stammer

I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest….while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim.

• humility

• boldness

• modesty

•  fear

Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own sagacity.

• to inclose

• ignorance

• talented

• shrewdness

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

• to hide under false pretense

• truthfulness

• tolerated

• to enclose

Above all was the sense of hearing acute.

• deafness

• forcefully

• dull senses

• sharp senses

 I argued...in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased.

• eyes

• hand gestures

• speech

• facial expressions

He was still sitting up in bed listening- just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.

• spiders

• mice

• a beating heart

• beetles