English Vocab for Frankenstein #2

salubrious

(adj.) promoting health or well-being

adduce

(v) To bring forth as evidence; to use as an example

obdurate

(adj.) stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action

ignominy

(n.) shame and disgrace

perdition

(n.) damnation; ruin; hell

incommode

(v.) to inconvenience (someone)

viand

(n.) an article of food

scion

(n.) descendant; heir

abject

(adj.) degraded; contemptible; servile; complete and unrelieved (utterly hopeless, shameful or wretched person or situation)

sally

(v.) to rush forward suddenly, usually from a defensive position (n.) a sudden rushing forth

flagrant

(adj.) extremely bad, glaring; scandalous, notorius

indelible

(adj.) not able to be erased or removed; memorable

portmanteau

(n.) a large trunk or suitcase

disquisition

(n.) formal systematic inquiry; long formal speech or written report

sagacity

(n.) shrewdness, soundness of perspective

wantonly

(adv.) without discipline, recklessly

imprecate

(v.) to utter (a curse) or invoke (evil) against someone or something

sanguinary

(adj.) bloodthirsty; bloody

blight

(n.) a disease that causes plants to die; a condition of disease or ruin; (v.) to destroy, ruin

remonstrate

(v.) to argue or plead with someone against something,

inexorable

(adj.) impossible to stop or prevent

languid

(adj.) drooping; sluggish

assize

(n.) a judicial inquest or the verdict of jurors;

torpor

(n.) extreme mental and physical sluggishness

adjuration

(n.) a solemn urging; (v.) adjure: enjoin solemnly

opprobrium

(n.) disgrace arising from shameful conduct

contumely

(n.) insolent language or treatment