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Edgar Allen Poe, The Oval Portrait
Preview Vocabulary for The Oval Portrait by Poe
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| Appennines | mountain chanin streching the length of the Italian Peninsula |
| Manifold and Multiform | a wide variety |
| Arabesque | elaborate, very detailed pattern |
| Incipient | beginning to come into being |
| Purusal | reading |
| Purported | seemed |
| Niche | recess in the wall |
| Dissipate | break up, spread thin, and ultimately vanish |
| Vignette | picture that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper |
| Imperceptibly | unnoticeably, gradually, subtly |
| Fawn | unweened deer |
| Pined | yearned as for something unattainable |
| Renown | fame |
| Fervid | intense |
| Wrought | worked |
| Surpassingly | greatly exceeding others |
| Ardor | passion |
| Pallid | pale |
| Aghast | shocked, struck with horror |
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Marshall Middle School |
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