"A Rose for Emily" Vocabulary Quiz

Definition: (n.) blinds or shutters

• Swinging Doors

• Sibilant

• Contemporaries

• Jalousies

Definition: hopelessly tangled or entangled

• Inseparable

• Inextricable

• Affable

• Indefatigable

Definition: extremely poisonous

• Virulent

• Pungent

• Inextricable

• Diffident

Definition: a small dome, especially a small dome on a drum on top of a larger dome, adorning a roof or ceiling.

• cupolas

• tableau

• malleus

• pall

Definition: harsh in taste or odor; sharp in manner or temper

• sweet

• acrid

• tacit

• acerbic

Definition: a man married to an unfaithful wife

• counterfleits

• remitted

• cuckolded

• encroached

Definition: a small group working in secret

• pall

• cavil

• junta

• cabal

Definition: cleared of accusations or charges

• deprecation

• inextricable

• vindicated

• solaced

Definition: a hissing sound

• sibilant

• temerity

• virulent

• sapient

Definition: a time period lasting through the ages; eternity

• ordinary annuity

• annuity

• perpetuity

• deprecation