Frankenstein Vocab
Terms
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- afflicted
- troubled;injured
- repose
- rest
- allurements
- enticements
- to buffet
- to cuff, to batter
- hovel
- an open shed or shelter, a small wretched and often dirty house
- diffident
- hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self confidence; reserved or unassertive
- docile
- tractable or obedient
- irksome
- tedious
- transtitory
- tending to pass away, of brief duration
- to spurn
- to reject with disdain or contempt
- intricacies
- complexities, having many parts
- reverie
- daydream; condition of being lodt in thought
- succour
- comfort; aid; relief
- asylum
- sanctuary; shelter; refuge
- to loiter
- to dawdle, hang around
- to grapple with
- to wrestle with
- to procure
- to obtain
- irrevocable
- unalterable
- to derive
- to take receive or obtain especially from a specified source
- candour
- forthrightness and fairness
- exertion
- a strenuous endeavor
- vacillating
- to waver in mind, will, or feeling; hesitate in choice of opinions or courses
- to entice
- to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing
- daemon
- fiend
- intonation
- manner of utterance, the rise and fall of pitch in the voice in speech
- to obliterate
- to make indecipherable by obscuring or wearing away
- tenement
- residence or dwelling
- penury
- poverty
- inquisitive
- inclined to ask questions, improperly curious about the affairs of others
- sublime
- of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth; inspires awe
- to relinquish
- to give up, release, or yield
- amassed
- accumulated,gathered
- sustenance
- nourishment
- to dispel
- to drive away by or as if by scattering
- to endeavor
- to attempt by exertion of effort
- discernment
- a power to see accurately what is not evident to the average mind
- precipice
- a very steep or overhanging place, a hazardous situation
- irremediable
- unfixable
- to mortify
- to subdue or deaden, subject to severe and vexing embarassment
- harrowing
- tormenting,vexing
- to dissipate
- to cause to break up and scatter; to cause to weaken and vanish
- bestow
- to give
- reverential
- feeling or showing honor or respect
- to debilitate
- to impair the strength of, weaken , enfeeble
- impediment
- something that bars or hinders
- to delineate
- to describe or portray with accuracy or detail
- gnash
- to strike or grind
- celestial
- of,relating to , or suggesting heaven or divinity
- vicar
- a member of the episcopal or church of england or laity who as charge of a mission or chapel
- abode
- the place where one abides
- assailed
- attacked
- dirge
- song or hymn of grief or lamentation
- to waft
- to cause to move or go lightly by or as if by the impulse of wind or waves
- chastise
- to punish
- indefatigable
- incapable of being fatigued, untiring
- grandeur
- magnificence
- adversity
- a state or condition contrary to one of well being; misfortune
- interment
- depositing( a dead body) in the eart or in a tomb
- futility
- uslessness; utter ineffectiveness
- magistrate
- a local official excercising administrative and often judicial functions