Vocabulary for "The Pit and the Pendulum"

the act of emphasizing something

• accentuation

• encompassing

• obstinacy

• pertinacity

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

to turn away

• prostrate

• pathos

• lucid

• avert

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5B

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

speaking (or writing) with force and fluency; movingly expressive

• lucid

• macabre

• eloquent

• tumultuous

Tags

CCSS.SL.11-12.4

encircle; enclose; surround; envelop

• accentuation

• encompass

• iniquity

• pertinacity

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

sinfulness; wickedness

• iniquity

• plausibility

• supposition

• obstinacy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

offensively prying; pertaining to secret criminal prosecutions

• insuperable

• macabre

• supposition

• inquisitorial

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.11-12.5

impossible to overcome

• indeterminate

• insuperable

• tumultuous

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

easily understood

• eloquent

• inquisitorial

• lucid

• supposition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

gruesome; ghastly; grim; pertaining to the ugly side of death

• tumultuous

• prostrate

• obstinacy

• macabre

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

stubbornness

• supposition

• accentuation

• iniquity

• obstinacy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5B