In the story,The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe,what word begins with pest?

Question

I have to choose ten vocab words to look up in this story for homework,and i wrote down the beginning of the word and i can't find that word that begins with pest,and can u tell me what paragraph the word is in please thanks :)

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Answer 1

"Pestilence"

". . . I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence."

It's the last word in paragraph 17.

Answer 2

pestilence--
For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me. This was just the reverse of what I had anticipated; but — I know not how or why it was — its evident fondness for myself rather disgusted and annoyed me. By slow degrees, these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred. I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it. I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise violently ill-use it; but gradually — very gradually — I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence.