The Fall of the House of Usher

Question 1

having or showing a perceptive understanding or insight; shrewd

Answer 1

Acute

Question 2

a period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour

Answer 2

Minute

Question 3

the state or process of falling into decay or being in disrepair

Answer 3

dilapidation

Question 4

Noun, A long narrow crack or opening by breaking or splitting, especially in a rock or earth.

Answer 4

Fissure

Question 5

The general furniture was _________, comfortless, antique, and tattered.

Answer 5

profuse

Question 6

fissure

Answer 6

synonyms: opening, crevice ; antonyms: closure, solid

Question 7

of something offered or discharged) exuberantly plentiful; abundant

Answer 7

profuse

Question 8

profuse

Answer 8

synonyms: abounding, ample ; antonyms : lacking, sparse

Question 9

adverb, in a manner that weighs heavily on the senses or spirits

Answer 9

Oppressively

Question 9

Synonyms: Severely, harshly; Antonyms; softly mildly

Answer 9

Oppressively

Question 10

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung ________________ low in the heavens, …

Answer 10

Oppressively

Question 11

Adjective, Affected with great sadness or depression

Answer 11

Melancholy

Question 12

Synonyms; gloomy, depressed
Antonyms; happy, cheerful

Answer 12

Melancholy

Question 13

and found myself, as the evening drew on, within view of the ______________ house of usher

Answer 13

Melancholy

Question 14

Adverb, strangely; oddly

Answer 14

Singularly

Question 15

Synonyms; unusually, Uncommonly
Antonyms; Commonly, Normally

Answer 15

Singularly

Question 16

I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a _____________ dreary tract of country.

Answer 16

Singularly

Question 17

Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely__________

Answer 17

perceptible fissure

Question 18

Synonyms; Shark, keen
Antonyms; dull, slow

Answer 18

Acute

Question 19

The writer spoke with of_______bodily illness

Answer 19

Acute

Question 20

Synonyms; moment, second
Antonym; immense, large

Answer 20

Minute

Question 21

___________fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.

Answer 21

Minute

Question 22

Synonyms; Disrepair, decay
Antonyms; restoration, advantage

Answer 22

Dilapidation

Question 23

Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary________

Answer 23

Dilapidation