Collection 3: The Pit and the Pendulum

As you read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 3: Song of Myself, Growing Up Asian in America, poems by Emily Dickinson, Walden, Against Nature, The Minister's Black Veil, The Pit and the Pendulum
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  1. Jacobin
    a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
  2. indeterminate
    of uncertain or ambiguous nature
  3. locution
    a word or phrase that people use in particular situations
  4. galvanic battery
    battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel
  5. appreciation
    understanding of the nature or meaning of something
  6. Hades
    (religion) the world of the dead
  7. swoon
    pass out from weakness or physical or emotional distress
  8. lucid
    transparently clear; easily understandable
  9. tumultuous
    characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
  10. supposition
    a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
  11. perish
    pass from physical life
  12. serge
    a durable, woven wool fabric with raised diagonal lines
  13. insuperable
    incapable of being surpassed or excelled
  14. prostrate
    lying face downward
  15. sulphurous
    of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur
  16. luster
    the property of something that shines with reflected light
  17. charnel
    gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
  18. superstition
    an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear
  19. dint
    force or effort
  20. recusant
    someone who refuses to conform to standards of conduct
  21. ultima Thule
    the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world
  22. scimitar
    a curved saber used in Eastern countries
  23. inanition
    exhaustion resulting from lack of food
  24. pertinacity
    persistent determination
  25. rack
    an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
  26. athwart
    across the course, direction, or center line of a ship
  27. minion
    a servile or fawning dependent
  28. moiety
    one of two approximately equal parts
  29. viand
    a choice or delicious dish
  30. conjecture
    the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
  31. spectral
    resembling or characteristic of a phantom
  32. lurid
    shining with an unnatural red glow
  33. unrelenting
    not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
  34. ague
    chills and fever that are symptomatic of malaria
  35. avert
    turn away or aside
Created on Thu Jul 10 01:07:13 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 10 13:32:10 EDT 2014)

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