Vocabulary from the Text (Pit & Pendulum)

...there have been brief, very brief periods when I have conjured up rememberances which the (a)   reason of a later epoch assures me could have had reference only to that condition or seeming unconsiousness. (paragraph 3)

Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and saound --- the (a)   motion of the heart, and, in my ears, thesould of its beating. (paragraph 4)

Then a pause in which all is blank. Then again sound, and motion, and touch-- a tingling sensation (a)   my frame. (paragraph 4)

The difficulty, nevertheless, was but trivial; although, in the disorder of my fancy, it seemed at first (a)   . (paragraph 8)

My excessive fatigue induced me to remain (a)   ; and sleep soon overtook me as I lay. (paragraph 6)

In the confusion attending my fall, I did not immediately apprehend a somewhat starting circumstance, which yet, in a few seconds afterward, ans why I still lay (a)   , arrested my attention. (paragraph 11)

In feeling my way I had found many angles, and thus deduced an idea of great irregularity; so (a)   is the effect of total darkness... (paragraph 16).

...so potent is the effect of total darkness upon one arousing from (a)   or sleep! (paragraph 16)

Days passed-- it might have been that many days passed-- ere it swept so closely over me as to fan me with its (a)   breath. The odor of the sharp steel forced itself into my nostrils. (paragraph 22).

Long suffering has nearly (a)   all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbeciile--an idiot. (paragraph 23)