Frankenstein
Frankenstein Vocab List
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- chimera
- an illusion; a foolish fancy; Greek Mythology. A fire-breathing she-monster usually represented as a composite of a lion, goat, and serpent.; An imaginary monster made up of grotesquely disparate parts.
- caprice
- a sudden desire
- prognostication
- a prediction or prophecy
- aver
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- suppliant
- (adj) asking humbly and earnestly; (n) one who makes a request humbly and earneslty
- inure
- cause to accept or become hardened to
- forbear
- (formal) to stop yourself from saying or doing sth that you could or would like to say or do, to keep from doing something by using patience
- pedantic
- bookish; showing off learning; marked by an excessive ostentatious concern for book learning; N. pedantry
- poignant
- [adj] keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; profoundly moving emotionally
- dogmatism
- dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
- imbue
- to inspire, permeate, or pervade, to saturate as with dye
- effusion
- pouring forth; unrestrained outpouring of feeling; V. effuse: pour out; ADJ. effusive: pouring forth; gushing
- repine
- fret; complain; be annoyed; Ex. repine over the undone work
- rent
- tear made by rending; rip; split
- paroxysm
- a sudden uncontrollable attack
- dross
- (1) waste matter; refuse; (2) worthless, commonplace, or trivial matter
- penury
- a state of extreme poverty or destitution
- capacious
- able to hold much, roomy
- satiate
- To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
- syndic
- one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions
- filial
- of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter.
- mien
- The external appearance or manner of a person.
- abstruse
- not easily understood; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge (synonym recondite)
- pittance
- a woefully meager allowance, wage or portion Synonyms: modicum, trifle Antonyms: fortune
- galvanism
- Current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action.
- solicitude
- n. Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear.