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WorksheetsThe Tell Tale Heart - Vocabulary
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins
You should have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work!
Dissimulation means...
pretending
cutting up
dismember
logical
What was it that vexed the man...
the soup bowl
the eye
the man's riches
the man's attitudue
An old wise man has a great deal of....
money
plot
sagacity
jewelry
The man refrained from killing the old man because...
he was waiting for the police to come
he was waiting for the eye to be open
he was annoyed
he was a psychopath
What two actions did the man take to conceale the body? Mark 2 answers!
he called the police
he dismembered the corpse
he hid the corpse under the floor boards
he burnt the man
First of all I ____________________the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.
defended
disjointed
dismembered
disappointed
This word means the same as gestures.
gesticulations
symbolization
causations
headache
a willingness to take bold risks
or
rude or disrespectful behavior; impudence
rapacious
audacity
sagacity
tantalize
in a forceful, passionate, or intense manner; with great feeling
illuminate
auditory
facade
vehemently
contemptuous ridicule or mockery - Hint "Don't you disrespect me young man! Don't you derogate or deride! You're in my world now, not your world. And I've got friends on the other side!"
procreate
derision
illuminate
hypocritical
?
vital
rapacious
congenial
hypocritical
What does stifle mean?
to play the clarinet
torment or tease
to make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate.
excite the senses with jazz music
The man in the Tell Tale Heart a very _______________ sense of hearing.
octuse
right
acute
longitudinal
