an occurance at owl creek bridge vocabulary

Question 1

sleepers

Answer 1

ties that support railroad tracks

Question 2

sentinel

Answer 2

person acting as a guard

Question 3

acclivity

Answer 3

upward slope

Question 4

embrasure

Answer 4

slanted opening that increases the firing angle of a gun

Question 5

imperious

Answer 5

intensely compelling

Question 6

secessionist

Answer 6

one who approved of Alabama’s movement to withdraw from United States before the Civil War began

Question 7

knell

Answer 7

sound of a bell rung slowly for a disaster

Question 8

picket post

Answer 8

troops that protect an army from a suprise attack

Question 9

efface

Answer 9

erase

Question 10

oscillation

Answer 10

act of swinging back and forth

Question 11

ludicrous

Answer 11

absurd

Question 12

undulation

Answer 12

rising and falling in waves

Question 13

preternaturally

Answer 13

without explanation

Question 14

gesticulate

Answer 14

make gestures with hands

Question 15

martinet

Answer 15

strict disciplinarian

Question 16

diminuendo

Answer 16

reduction in volume

Question 17

grape

Answer 17

cluster of small iron balls fired from a cannon

Question 18

aeolin harp

Answer 18

harps that produce music when air blows over the strings

Question 19

malign

Answer 19

malicious