Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, chapters 13-20 vocab

Conjecture

Guess or theory based on inclusive facts (Example, blanking that ants in your kitchen are looking for food)

Cadence

Rhythmic flow, vocal inflection (Example, she spoke with a slow and steady blank)

Subsist

To exist (Example, when prisoners blank on bread and water)

Consummation

Completion, fulfillment (Example, a business deal finally closing after negotiations)

Ensuing

A consequence following immediately afterward (Example, after the loud explosion, the blank silence was defeating)

Indelibly

Permanently, something not easily erased (Example, his childhood summers at the lake are blank etched in his memory)

Supplication

Humble and earnest request or prayer (Example, a person kneeling in a chapel)

Wantonly

Done without reason or excuse, heartlessly (Example, when someone blankly destroys a historical monument)

Myriads

Countless (Example, there are a blank of stars in the sky)

Vestige

Trace, smallest amount (Example, last few stones of an ancient building)

Epithets

Curses, hateful comments (Example, many were offended by her insulting blanks)

Sanguinary

Bloodthirsty or bloody (Example, a blank battle)

Contortions

A twisting out of shape (Example, a gymnast twisting her body into an extreme shape)

Malice

A desire to hurt or harm others (Example, spreading a false and harmful rumor about someone out of spite)

Guise

Mask, pretense (Example, a spy pretending to be a tourist to gather information)

Machinations

Evil plottings, secret schemes (Example, a super villain’’s elaborate “world domination blanks” involving mind control devices and secret lairs)

Sedulous

Hard-working, diligent (Example, someone showing careful, persistent, and diligent work)

Remissness

Negligence, carelessness in doing what one has to do (Example, a security guard’s failure to patrol their assigned area)

Dissuade

To discourage from a purpose or course of action by persuasion (Example, a doctor trying to blank a patient from smoking by explaining the health risks)

Provocation

A cause of irritation, the act of provoking (Example, deliberately insulting someone’s intelligence to make them angry)

Condescension

Patronizing manner (Example, a manager explaining a simple task to an employee with an overly patient tone)

Atrocious

Horrible, cruel, extremely evil (Example, blank weather)

Reverie

Dreamy thoughts, thinking of pleasant things (Example, being lost in a pleasant dream)

Politic

Prudent, wise in looking out for one’s own interests (Example, it was a blank move to compliment her rival’s work, ensuring she wouldn’t make an enemy)