Frankenstein ch. 11-24 Vocab

Uncouth

Crude, unrefined, awkward

Offal

Waste parts of a butchered animal; rubbish

Assuage

To make less severe; to satisfy or appease

Purloined

Stolen

Venerable

Deserving respect because of age, character, or importance

Poignantly

Very touching, keenly distressing to the mins or feelings

Exhortations

Urgings by strong appeals

Conciliating

To overcome the hatred of; to win favor, make calm and amenable; pacify, reconcile

Verdure

Fresh greenness of flourishing vegetation

Indelibly

Permanently, something not easily erased

Emulation

Trying to equal or excel

Supplication

Humble and earnest request or prayer

Sagacity

Keen, sound judgement

Consternation

Great dismay; paralyzing terror

Vestige

Trace, track, footprint

Succor

Help, aid

Sanguinary

Bloodthirsty or bloody

Precipitate

To bring about suddenly; hasty, rash

Machinations

Evil plottings, secret schemes

Sedulous

hard-working, diligent

Indolence

idleness, laziness

Promontory

Point of land extending into the water

Expedite

Make easy, speed up

Sophisms

A plausible but mistaken argument

Profundity

A deep intellectual ability

Inexorable

Relentless, not capable of being

Politic

Prudent, looking out for one’s own interests

Torpor

Apathy, condition of inactivity

Artifice

Ingenuity, subtle deception

Invective

An abusive speech, violent attack with words

Abjuration

giving up

Illustrious

Celebrated, famous

Purport

To claim or profess the main idea

Conflagration

A big and destructive fire