American Literature
Vocabulary Directions
All of the definitions to the vocabulary words can be found in your literature books.
Choose the vocabulary words from “The Devil and Tom Walker,” “Thanatopsis,” and
“The Fall of the House of Usher"
Write a vocabulary word in each spoke of the vocabulary wheels, and then complete the
worksheet according to the directions.
On the back of the worksheet, fill in the spokes with unused words from the list.
American Literature
Vocabulary for Romantic Writers
“Devil and Tom Walker”
Articulate
Termagant
Propitiated
Ostentation
Vainglory (in context)
Parsimony
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
sublime
lurid
seraph
munificent
paradoxical
trepidation
Gossamer
anomalous
discordant
perusal
impetuous
alarumed (in context)
“Thanatopsis”
“The Bells”
expostulation
Musings
Shroud
Patriarchs
Hoary
Sepulcher
Pensive
Venerable
Brood