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

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "Throwing the links about his waist, it was but the work of a few seconds to secure it. He was too much ASTOUNDED to resist."

Use context clues to determine the meaning of the word in CAPS: "No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining APERTURE and let it fall within."