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"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Vocabulary for the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart"
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| acute | highly sensitive |
| dissimulation | hiding one's feelings or purposes |
| profound | intellectually deep |
| sagacity | highly intelligent, wise and showing sound judgment |
| crevice | a narrow opening |
| gesticulations | energetic hand or arm movements |
| derision | contempt, ridicule, harsh language against someone |
| hearken | listen |
| deathwatches | wood-boring beetles whose heads make a tapping sound that is superstitiously regarded as an omen of death |
| scantlings | small beams or timbers |
| dissemble | to conceal (hide) the truth about one's true feelings or motives |
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