Frankenstein Vocab 1

Harrowing

Really disturbing or distressing

Fastidious

Giving extreme attention to details, excessively concerned with cleanliness, hard to please

Ameliorate

Make something bad better

Evince

To reveal a feeling or quality of someone or something

Countenance

a person’s face

Repose

Noun: rest, sleep;

Verb: to put something somewhere

Poignant

A sense of sadness or regret

Inexorable

Impossible to stop

Capitulate

To admit defeat

Endeavor

Verb:to try to look for something; Noun:an attempt to achieve something

Capacious

Having a lot of space/room

Acquit

To act or behave well

Dauntless

Showing fearlessness, not hesitant and determined

Inure

Used to something unpleasant

Derive

To get something/obtain something from somewhere

Conjecture

To form an opinion on incomplete information

Peruse

To read something closely

Foreboding

A bad feeling, that something bad will happen

Ardent

Enthusiastic or passionate

Vehemence

The display of strong feeling, passion