immoderate (adj.): Excessive; going beyond reasonable limits; not moderate. ‘No one could love a child more than I loved your brother’ — tears came into his eyes as he spoke — ‘but is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? (94).
ephemeral (adj.): Lasting a very short time. It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral [. . .] sorrows (97).
sublime (n.): So beautiful as to be overwhelming; striking, stunning, or awe-inspiring. [A]s I ascended higher, the valley assumed a more magnificent and astonishing character. [. . .] But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth (97).
congregate (v.): To come together or gather into a group. They congregated [a]round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittery pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds— they all gathered [a]round me and bade me be at peace (99).
duty (n.): A sense of moral obligation; something that you must do because it is morally right or
because the law requires it. ‘Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind’(102).
docile (adj.): Obedient or compliant; easily led or managed. I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me (102-103).
clemency (n.): Merciful treatment; a merciful or lenient disposition in one who has the power to
administer punishment. Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due (103).
indistinct (adj.): Blurry, fuzzy, unclear, or indefinite. ‘It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being: all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct’ (105).
assuage (v.): To make less painful or intense; to appease or quench. ‘Food, however, became scarce; and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger’ (107).
adjacent (adj.): Close by or next to something; sharing a border. ‘As soon as morning dawned, I crept from my kennel, that I might view the adjacent cottage and discover if I could maintain in the habitation I had found’ (109).
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