Tell-Tale Heart Vocab

Definition Matching acute sharp; keen conceived thought of vex to disturb; annoy stifled smothered stealthily cautiously; secretly audacity shameless daring or boldness vehemently with intense emotion derision ridicule Context Fill-in-the-Blank Any thing was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer!It was not a groan of pain or grief--oh, no!-- it was the low, stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe.I talked more quickly--more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased.It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.