Frankenstein Vocabulary List #1

Vocabulary study set covering the 20 defined terms from Frankenstein Vocabulary List #1.

Abhor

To regard something with extreme repugnance / intense hatred

Abstruse

Difficult to understand; challenging

Acme

The highest point / peak of something

Affluence

Wealth / financial prosperity

Assuage

Make intense feeling less severe; soothe / relieve

Chimera

A wild illusion, impossible fabrication

Emaciated

Abnormally thin / weak

Fervent

Showing great warmth / intensity of enthusiasm

Fettered

Chained / heavily restricted from freedom

Fortnight

Period of 2 weeks / fourteen nights

Countenance

A person’s facial expression

Haggard

Looking exhausted / unwell

Indolence

Avoidance of activity; laziness

Insatiable

Impossible to satisfy; unappeasable desire for something

Languor

A state of physical / mental weariness; lack of energy

Precipitous

Dangerously high / steep; action done w/o consideration

Repast

A meal

Sagacity

Acuteness of mental discernment; wisdom

Squalid

Extremely dirty / unpleasant; poverty / neglect

Viands

An item of food; choice dish