r/HomeworkHelp 13d ago

Answered [help] daughter just sent me this

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u/monkey-bones 👋 a fellow Redditor 13d ago

Are these based on vocab words cuz wtf is this crossword

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u/SnooChickens2451 🤑 Tutor 13d ago

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

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u/AUniquePerspective 13d ago edited 13d ago

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.