11th Grade Recommended Reading List: "The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe

The narrator of this twisted tale embarks on a grisly quest for revenge. Read the full text here.

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  1. catacomb
    an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried
    We had passed through walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs.
  2. preclude
    make impossible, especially beforehand
    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.
  3. impunity
    exemption from punishment or loss
    I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.
  4. retribution
    the act of taking revenge
    A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
  5. wont
    an established custom
    I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.
  6. insufferable
    extremely unpleasant or annoying
    The vaults are insufferably damp.
  7. explicit
    precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable
    I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house.
  8. crypt
    a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber
    At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious.
  9. extremity
    the outermost or farthest region or point
    In an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock, stood stupidly bewildered.
  10. fetter
    restrain with shackles
    A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite.
  11. subside
    wear off or die down
    When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier.
  12. aperture
    a usually small man-made opening
    I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within.
Created on Sun Feb 12 09:21:33 EST 2012 (updated Mon Aug 04 16:42:01 EDT 2025)

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