Cask of Amontillado Vocabulary

Front

"At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled-- but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, ____________ the idea of risk."

Back

precluded

Front

"I continued to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his ________________"

Back

immolation

Front

"I drink," he said, "to the buried that _________ around us."

Back

repose

Front

Its _________ the feeble light did not enable us to see.

Back

termination

Front

"No answer still. I thrust the torch through the remaining _______ and let it fall within."

Back

aperture

Front

No attendants at home; they had _____ to make merry.

Back

absconded

Front

"I must not only punish, but punish with ________"

Back

impunity