The Fall of the House of Usher Flashcards
Vocab Set #1
having or showing a perceptive understanding or insight; shrewd
Acute
a period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour
Minute
the state or process of falling into decay or being in disrepair
dilapidation
Noun, A long narrow crack or opening by breaking or splitting, especially in a rock or earth.
Fissure
The general furniture was _________, comfortless, antique, and tattered.
profuse
fissure
synonyms: opening, crevice ; antonyms: closure, solid
of something offered or discharged) exuberantly plentiful; abundant
profuse
profuse
synonyms: abounding, ample ; antonyms : lacking, sparse
adverb, in a manner that weighs heavily on the senses or spirits
Oppressively
Synonyms: Severely, harshly; Antonyms; softly mildly
Oppressively
DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung ________________ low in the heavens, …
Oppressively
Adjective, Affected with great sadness or depression
Melancholy
Synonyms; gloomy, depressed
Antonyms; happy, cheerful
Melancholy
and found myself, as the evening drew on, within view of the ______________ house of usher
Melancholy
Adverb, strangely; oddly
Singularly
Synonyms; unusually, Uncommonly
Antonyms; Commonly, Normally
Singularly
I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a _____________ dreary tract of country.
Singularly
Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely__________
perceptible fissure
Synonyms; Shark, keen
Antonyms; dull, slow
Acute
The writer spoke with of_______bodily illness
Acute
Synonyms; moment, second
Antonym; immense, large
Minute
___________fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.
Minute
Synonyms; Disrepair, decay
Antonyms; restoration, advantage
Dilapidation
Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary________
Dilapidation
