English 2H Frankenstein Vocabulary

diabolical

disgracefully unpleasant, devilish

penury

extreme poverty, lack of resources

progeny

 descendant or offspring of something

capacious

spacious, roomy

ardent

glowing, passionate

harrowing

extremely distressing; disturbing or frightening

rankling

persisting irritation, festering pain

obdurate

stubborn, refusing to change opinion

purloined

stole

sophisms

deceiving arguments

fetter

shackle, chain to restrain a prisoner

perdition

hell, damnation, ruin

abhorrent

causing disgust or dislike; detest, hated

interment

placing of a corpse in a grave, the burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb, typically with rites

vacillating

being indecisive; changing, fluctuating

inexorable

 impossible to stop or prevent

wantonly

in a deliberate and unprovoked or lustful way

imperious

assuming authority without justification, arrogant

salubrious

healthy, (of a place) pleasant-looking

slaked

 satisfied thirst

sanguinary

causing hella bloodshed

ignominious

deserving public shame; disgraceful and dishonorable

inclemency

unpleasant weather

languid

lazy/sluggish

conflagration

great fire

By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its ______ as a deformed and abortive creation…

progeny

I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a ______ mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.

capacious

I shall satiate my ______ curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.

ardent

Strange and _______ must be his story, frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it—thus!

harrowing

I was aware also that I should often lose all self-command, all capacity of hiding the _______ sensations that would possess me during the progress of my unearthly occupation.

harrowing

The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and ______ when he had leisure for reflection…

rankling

During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it spoke of _____ in its worst shape.

penury

It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable _______.

penury

He threatened excommunication and hell fire in my last moments if I continued ______

obdurate

I had first, however, provided for my sustenance for that day by a loaf of coarse bread, which I _________

purloined

I had before been moved by the _____ of the being I had created…

sophisms

He looks upon study as an odious ____ ; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake

fetter

Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and _______.

perdition

A residence in Turkey was _____ to her; her religion and her feelings were alike averse to it.

abhorrent

Mr. Kirwin, on hearing this evidence, desired that I should be taken into the room where the body lay for ______, that it might be observed what effect the sight of it would produce upon me.

interment

The poor woman was very _____ in her repentance

vacillating

But the old man decidedly refused, thinking himself bound in honour to my friend, who, when he found the father _____, quitted his country, nor returned until he heard that his former mistress was married according to her inclinations.

inexorable

I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me _______.

wantonly

Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so _______ bestowed?

wantonly

By the utmost self-violence I curbed the _________ voice of wretchedness, which sometimes desired to declare itself to the whole world, and my manners were calmer and more composed than they had ever been since my journey to the sea of ice.

imperious

…my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the ___________ air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.

salubrious

I ______ my thirst at the brook, and then lying down, was overcome by sleep.

slaked

Thanks to the lessons of Felix and the ______ laws of man, I had learned now to work mischief.

sanguinary

I thought of Elizabeth, of my father, and of Clerval—all left behind, on whom the monster might satisfy his _________ and merciless passions.

sanguinary

That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so ________ murdered!

diabolically murdered

Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ________ grave, and I the cause!

ignominious

Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the ________ of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.

inclmency

I visited Edinburgh with ________ eyes and mind; and yet that city might have interested the most unfortunate being.

languid

…on the very edge of death; but I felt _______ and unable to reflect on all that had passed.

languid

The light of that ______ will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds.

conflagration

Then again the kindly influence ceased to act—I found myself _____ed again to grief and indulging in all the misery of reflection.

fetter

Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenances, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you—he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus ________ fate be satisfied, and if the

inexorable

"Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am _______."

inexorable

When I was thirteen years of age we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon; the ________ of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.

inclemency

"Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the ______ of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man

inclemency

I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me ______.

watonly