Drag the tiles to the correct boxes to complete the pairs. Based on the context of each excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," choose the definition that most closely matches
the meaning of the bolded word.
a contagious disease that is devastating
to obstruct or hinder
great abundance
But first let me tell of the rooms in which it was held. These were
seven-an imperial suite. In many palaces, however, such suites
form a long and straight vista, while the folding doors slide back
nearly to the walls on either hand, so that the view of the whole
extent is scarcely impeded
There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse
bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the
body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban
which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his
fellow. men
The "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence
had ever been so fatal or so hideous Blood was its Avatar and its
seal--the redness and the horror of blood.