The Fall of the House of Usher

Vocabulary from Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher".

Word Bank: agitation, alter, anxiety, bizarre, casket, despair, draperies, dungeon, encounter, generation, melancholy, mental, moat, peculiar, reluctant, suffering, tatters, utter, vacant, vault

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Across

5. sorrowful, full of sadness

7. ripped pieces of cloth

10. a strong feeling of worry

11. to speak or make a sound from your mouth

12. anxiety, nervousness, or worry

15. an unplanned meeting

16. water that surrounds a house or castle

17. dark underground prison or area

18. a feeling of being very unhappy, having no hope

19. very unusual

Down

1. all of the people of about the same age in a family

2. empty

3. not by choice, not willingly

4. change

6. to feel or endure pain

8. an underground storage structure

9. curtains, window coverings

13. coffin

14. strange, odd

16. something about the mind or brain

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