1. “The Tell-Tale Heart” - vocabulary
acute
audacity
derision
hypocritical
stealthily
stifled
vehemently
vex
gesticulations
sharp, keen
Daring, boldness, fearlessness
ridicule, mocking, jeering laughter
two-faced, deceitful, pretending to be something one is not
cautiously, secretively
smothered
passionately, full of intense emotion
annoy, to irritate
energetic motions of hands and arms

2. Vocabulary continued! repose dismembered cunningly uncontrollable
hearken
scantlings
fluently
pulsation
enveloped
supposition
trifle
rest, relaxation, calmness
to remove limbs, to divide into pieces
cleverly, sly, crafty
impossible to handle
to listen attentively, to give attention
small wooden floor beams
written/spoken with ease, easily
throbbing sound
encased, surrounded, enclosed
a presumption, an assumption
of little importance or value, insignificant