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dreaded

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supposition

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convulsively

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All the textual evidence is from Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

dreaded: apprehension, fear oncoming possible danger or hardship. " I dreaded the first glance at objects around me. It was not that I feared to look upon things horrible, but that I grew aghast lest there should be nothing to see." Inference

supposition: a guess. "Y et not for a moment did I suppose myself actually dead. Such a supposition, notwithstanding what we read in fiction, is altogether inconsistent with real existence; - but where and in what state was I?" Inference

convulsively: intense shaking. " Upon recovering, I at once started to my feet, trembling convulsively in every fibre." Synonym

proceeded: continued " I cautiously moved forward, with my arms extended, and my eyes straining from their sockets, in the hope of catching some faint ray of light. I proceeded for many paces; " Example