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Frankenstein Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| penury | extreme poverty |
| capacious | spacious roomy |
| harrowing | distressing agonizing |
| cursory | done hastily with little attention to detail |
| ran;e | to irritate, annoy |
| caprice | a whim or fancy |
| ignominious | disgraceful, not noble |
| salubrious | healthful, promoting good health |
| timorous | fearful |
| obdurate | stubborn, inflexible |
| perdition | damnation, ruin |
| purloined | stolen |
| debilitate | to weaken |
| wanton | immoral, cruel |
| epithets | disparaging. abusive works |
| sophisms | believable but misleading argument |
| sanguinary | bloody, bloodthirsty, murderous |
| repugnance | loathing, disgust |
| imperious | domineering overbearing arrogant |
| portend | to predict |
| satiated | fully satisfied to the point of weariness disgust or excess |
| posterity | future generations |
| indolence | laziness, sloth |
| immutable | unchanging |