House of Usher Vocab

To be spread through/received in every part

Pervaded

No more better/worse than specified

Mere

Dangerously high or steep

Precipitous

A small pond

Tarn

A temporary stay

Sojourn

Open to more than one interpretation

Equivocal

A name or title

Appellation

Able to be perceived or recognized

Discernible

Superficially plausible, but truthfully false

Specious

A long narrow, opening or line of breakage made by cracking or splitting

Fissure

Able to be seen or noticed

Perceptible

Real or imaginary like seen in a dream

Phantasmagoric

Lavish or extravagant

Profuse

Thin, pale, and bony

Cadaverousness

Pale…

Pallid

Thinness…

Tenuity

Excessive….

Inordinate

Flavorless…

Insipid

Abnormal…

Anomalous

Based on assumption, rather than fact

Suppositious

Tangible…

Palpable

An angelic being

Seraph

A birds wing in flight

Pinion

Holding firmly to an opinion

Pertinancity

Ability to perceive or feel things

Sentience

Similarity…

Similitude

Behavior…

Demeanor

Lengthiness…

Prolixity

Brave a persistent

Doughty

Stubborn…

Obstinate

Intention to do bad or evil

Maliceful

Impressive…

Prodigious

Powerfullness…

Potency

Slow and clumsy because of great weight, dull and laborers or excessively solemn

Ponderous

Abnormally, weak or thin, especially because of illness or lack of food

Emanciated