Vocabulary from the Text (Pit & Pendulum)

...there have been brief, very brief periods when I have conjured up rememberances which the ______________ 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 __________________ 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 ______________________ my frame. (paragraph 4)

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

My excessive fatigue induced me to remain ___________; 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 _______________, arrested my attention. (paragraph 11)

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

...so potent is the effect of total darkness upon one arousing from ___________ 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 ____________ breath. The odor of the sharp steel forced itself into my nostrils. (paragraph 22).

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