"The Cask of Amontillado" Context Clues

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "The thousand INJURIES of Fortunato I had borne as I best could;"

• Insults; wrongdoings

• Crimes

• Accidents

• Wounds

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "At length I would be AVENGED; this was a point definitively settled—"

• To forgive

• To help

• To retaliate or punish in return

• To let go of a grudge

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "With these materials and with the aid of my trowel, I began VIGOROUSLY to wall up the entrance of the niche."

• slowly

• actively; energetic

• delicately

• build

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "There were no attendants at home; they had ABSCONDED to make merry in honor of the time."

• to arrive early

• danced

• to join

• left quickly and secretly

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "There were no attendants at home; they had ABSCONDED to make merry in honor of the time."

• to arrive early

• danced

• to join

• left quickly and secretly

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "...one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend. He ACCOSTED me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much."

• greeted

• dared

• avoided

• shared

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled— but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with IMPUNITY."

• exempt from receiving consequences

• forgiveness

• revenge

• with consideration

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "A wrong is UNREDRESSED when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally UNREDRESSED when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."

• excused

• fixed; made right

• to not get dressed

• not fixed or set right

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great CATACOMBS of Paris."

• museum

• dwelling

• underground cemetery

• statues

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "...I began vigorously to wall up the entrance of the niche. I had scarcely laid the first tier of the MASONRY when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off."

• glass

• stone or brick

• fabrication

• details