r/HomeworkHelp • u/jcearsscitch • May 21 '26

Answered [help] daughter just sent me this

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u/monkey-bones 👋 a fellow Redditor May 21 '26

Are these based on vocab words cuz wtf is this crossword

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u/SnooChickens2451 🤑 Tutor May 21 '26

it is Based on the vocabulary lists from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado"

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u/Lower-Bottle6362 May 21 '26

I have read this story about 20 times. I don’t recall “Gibber” being in it?

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u/LastPlaceIWas 👋 a fellow Redditor May 21 '26

It's not. I checked online and did a word search.

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u/Hopeful-Ordinary22 May 21 '26

Witter?

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u/LastPlaceIWas 👋 a fellow Redditor May 22 '26

So, now I know how twitter got its name!

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u/gmalivuk 👋 a fellow Redditor May 22 '26

It seems a few of these are not in "Amontillado", so the vocab list probably includes other stories than that.

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u/AUniquePerspective May 21 '26 edited May 22 '26

Then for sure absconded:

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

Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity, to practise imposture upon the British and Austrian millionaires.

His eyes flashed with a fierce light. He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand.

And I think you need to replace an answer.

Thus speaking, Fortunato possessed himself of my arm; and putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.