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Reading Assignments - Week of Sept. 29 – Oct 3, 2008

Reading Assignments - Week of Sept. 29 – Oct 3, 2008. acute. uh- kyoot Adjective Sharp; keen Above all was the sense of hearing acute. conceive. kuhn-seev Verb To think of It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. vex.

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Reading Assignments - Week of Sept. 29 – Oct 3, 2008

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  1. Reading Assignments - Week of Sept. 29 – Oct 3, 2008

  2. acute • uh-kyoot • Adjective • Sharp; keen • Above all was the sense of hearing acute.

  3. conceive • kuhn-seev • Verb • To think of • It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

  4. vex • veks • Verb • To disturb or annoy I did it for seven long nights—every night just at midnight—but I found the eye always closed; so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the man who vexed me, but his evil eye.

  5. stifled • stahy-fuhld • adjective • Smothered It was not a groan of pain or grief—oh, no!—it was the low, stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe.

  6. crevice • krev-is • noun • crack When I had waited a long time, very patiently, without hearing him lie down, I resolved to open a little--a very, very little crevice in the lantern.

  7. stealthily • stel-the-uh-lee • adverb • Cautiously; secretly So I opened it –you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily—until, at length, a single dim ray, like the thread of a spider, shot from out the crevice….

  8. audacity • aw-das-i-tee • noun • Shameless daring or boldness I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph,….

  9. vehemently • vee-uh-muhnt-lee • adverb • With intense emotion I talked more quickly--more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased.

  10. derision • di-rizh-uhn • noun • Ridicule Anything was more tolerable than this derision!

  11. hypocritical • hip-uh-krit-uh-cul • adjective • False or deceptive I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer!

  12. hypocritical Edgar Allen Poe Part 1 Edgar Allen Poe Part 2

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