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Frankenstein
Vocabulary
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| ascertaining | to find out, to obtain |
| fortitude | strength |
| entreated | to ask, to plead, to beg |
| traversed | to travel through, across, or over |
| gales | a very strong wind |
| capitulated | to surrender |
| paroxysm | a sudden violent emotion or action |
| Indefatigable | tireless |
| Interment | burial |
| Penury | extreme poverty |
| Celestial | relating to, or suggesting heaven |
| Panegyric | formal or elaborate speech |
| Dogmatism | no evidence, not concrete |
| Protracted | lengthened in time |
| Spector | ghost, spirit |
| Remorse | a deep regret coming from a sense of guilt for past wrongs |
| Placid | peaceful, calm |
| Conjectured | guess |
| Indelible | impossible to erase, remove, or blot out |
| Obliterated | to remove, to delete |
| Ignominious | causing disgrace or shame |
| Serenity | calm, peaceful |
| Ecstasy | joy, rapture |
| Fiend | enemy |
| Pinnacle | moutain top, peak |
| Innumerable | too many to be numbered :countless |
| Sustenance | something that gives support, help, or strength |
| Purloined | steal |
| Venerable | honor or respect |
| Enigmatic | mystery, puzzling, confusing |
| Amiable | having a friendly and pleasant manner |
| scion | descendent, child, bud, start |
| immured | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| asylum | a place of safety; shelter |
| deprecate | to represent as of little value; : to express disapproval of |
| visage | the face; an expression of the face |
| rustic | of, relating to, or suitable for the country or country people; rural |
| bliss | complete happiness, joy |
| inconstant | likely to change frequently without apparent reason |
| Impediment | obstacle, barrier |
| precipice | cliff |
| annul | to make ineffective; neutralize, cancel |
| languid | unenergetic, lack of spirit, listless |
| insuperable | impossible to overcome |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty, muderous |
| magistrate | a chief officer of government |
| precarious | depending on unknown conditions or chance events; risky |
| deranged | unbalaned, mad, crazy |
| presentiment | premonition |
| obstinate | stubborn, determined |
| intimidated | to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats |
| omnipotence | power, control |
| stigma | a mark of shame; stain |
| ennui | boredom |