click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Frankenstein
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Oblivion | forgetfulness |
| Rankling | irritating |
| Penury | extreme poverty |
| Caprice | whim |
| Cursory | hastily done |
| Prognosticated | predicted |
| Countenance | face;facial features |
| Indefatigable | tireless |
| Obliterated | destroying completely |
| Fetter | shackle |
| Immutable | unchanging |
| Vacillating | fluctuating;waivering |
| Salubrious | healthful |
| Carnage | destruction of life |
| Ignominious | disgraceful |
| Timorous | fearful |
| Obdurate | stubborn |
| Perdition | damnation;complete ruin |
| Inexorable | relentless;unyielding |
| Precipitous | steep |
| Commiserate | feel or express sympathy |
| Slaked | quenched |
| Debilitated | weakened |
| Inclemency | storminess |
| Sustenance | means of food or nourishment |
| Purloined | stolen |
| Benevolent | generous |
| Exhortations | urgings |
| Abhorrent | detested;hated |
| Wantonly | immorally;cruely |
| Augmented | increased |
| Epithets | abusive words or phrases |
| Sanguinary | bloody |
| Detrimental | harmful,damaging |
| Indolence | laziness |
| Languid | weary;listless |
| Sophisms | believable, but misleading arguments |
| Reveries | daydreams |
| Calamity | disaster |
| Interment | burial |
| Retrospect | looking |
| Repugnance | loathing |
| Imperious | domineering |
| Appalling | shocking |
| Posterity | future generations |
| Portend | predict |
| Diabolical | devilish |
| Satiated | fully satisfied |
| Conflagration | a great fire |