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Frankenstein
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 |