"The Cask Of Amontillado" : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

abscond

There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honor of the time.

accost

He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much.

aperture

I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within.

azure

"A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel."

cease

The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labors and sat down upon the bones.

crypt

At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious.

explicit

I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house.

fetter

A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite.

gesticulation

He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand.

impunity

I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.

insufferable

The vaults are insufferably damp.

jest

"You jest," he exclaimed, recoiling a few paces.

mortar

Throwing them aside, I soon uncovered a quantity of building stone and mortar.

motley

The man wore motley.

niche

In an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock, stood stupidly bewildered.

obstinate

There was then a long and obstinate silence.

preclude

At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk.

rampant

"A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel."

rampart

Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones.

recess

We had passed through walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs.

recoil

"You jest," he exclaimed, recoiling a few paces.

repose

"I drink," he said, "to the buried that repose around us."

retribution

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.

surmount

He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells.

venture

THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.

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