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Frankenstein Vocab 3
Question | Answer |
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Tedious | long and tiring |
Venerable | worth of respect or reverence due to age, character or importance |
Alleviate | to relieve, to lessen, to make easier |
Candor | speaking honestly, frankness, sincerity |
Mockery | ridiculing, making fun of someone or something |
Ignominious | shameful, disgraceful, dishonorable |
Excerpt | to curse or to declare something or someone to be evil |
Indignant | anger at something unworthy or unjust |
Besiege | to surround so as to force to give up. |
Wanton | a lewd or immoral person; doing something in a reckless and malicious way |
Timorous | timid; easy frightened; shy and fearful by nature |
Absolution | freeing from guilt or blame |
Hapless | unfortunate and deserving pity |
Augment | to make greater in size, number or amount; to increase |
Malice | a desire to hurt or harm others |
Guile | shrewdness demonstrated by being skilled in deception |
Abhorrence | intense dislike or hatred |
Impetuous | impulsive; brash; rushing with violence |
Obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
Exculpate | to pronounce not guilty of criminal charges |