vocab set 1

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Oppressively

Question 2

Synonyms: Severely, harshly; Antonyms: softly, mildly

Answer 2

Oppressively

Question 3

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens,… / the odors of all flowers were oppressive / when I thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret

Answer 3

Oppressively

Question 4

Adjective, Unusual or striking

Answer 4

singular

Question 5

Synonyms: unique, unusual, peculiar, exceptional, extraordinary

Answer 5

singular

Question 6

through a ______ dreary tract of country; and found myself, as the evening drew on…

Answer 6

singular

Question 7

Noun
Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four “cardinal humours” of animal bodies (historical)

Answer 7

melancholy

Question 8

Synonyms: gloomy, depressed, dejected, sad, glum, mournful

Answer 8

melancholy

Question 9

…and found myself, as the evening drew on, within view of the _____ House of Usher.

Answer 9

melancholy

Question 10

Verb, Simple past and past participle of elapse

Answer 10

elapsed

Question 11

Synonyms: expired, gone, past, lapsed, outlawed

Answer 11

elapsed

Question 12

ts proprietor, Roderick Usher, had been one of my boon companions (friends) in boyhood; but many years had____ since our last meeting.

Answer 12

elapsed

Question 13

Adjective, Brief, quick, short

Answer 13

acute

Question 14

Synonyms: sharp, keen, severe, perceptive, penetrating

Answer 14

acute

Question 15

A letter, however, had lately reached me — a letter from him. The writer spoke of____ bodily illness —…

Answer 15

acute

Question 16

Unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour

Answer 16

Minute

Question 17

Synonyms: moment, tiny, time, second,instant

Answer 17

Minute

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Minute

Question 19

The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined

Answer 19

dilapidation

Question 20

Synonyms: Disrepair, Decay, Ruin, Destruction, Collapse

Answer 20

dilapidation

Question 21

Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary ____.

Answer 21

dilapidation

Question 22

Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned

Answer 22

perceptible

Question 23

Synonyms: Discernible, visible, evident, noticeable, apparent

Answer 23

perceptible

Question 24

Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely _____ fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.

Answer 24

perceptible

Question 25

A long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth

Answer 25

Fissure

Question 26

Synonyms: crack, split, cleft, breach, hole, fracture, crevice

Answer 26

Fissure

Question 27

Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible ______, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.

Answer 27

Fissure

Question 28

To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.

Answer 28

profuse

Question 29

Synonyms: abundant, plentiful, lavish, lush, copious

Answer 29

profuse

Question 30

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

Answer 30

profuse