Core 3 Masque of the Red Death Vocab

1. Dominion

Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: sovereignty, control
In the story: "When his dominions were half depopulated…"

2. Dauntless

Adjective

 Showing fearlessness and determination
But the Prince of Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.

3. Buffoon

noun

A ridiculous but amusing person,a clown

They were buffoons…..

4. Pestilence

Noun

A fatal epidemic disease,especially bubonic plague...

And while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad.

5. Countenance  

Noun

a persons face or facial expression

the mask which concealed the visage was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest scrutiny must have had difficulty in detecting the cheat. 

6. Prevailing

Adjective

existing at a particular time; current.: "the unfavorable prevailing economic conditions".

"These windows were of stained glass whose color varied in accordance with the prevailing hue of…"

7. Seclusion

Noun

The state of being private and away from other people

And with these retired too the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.

8. Jest

noun

A thing said or done for amusement

Even with the utterly lost,to whom life and death are equally jests,there are matters of which no jest can be made.