| foreboding | (n) 1. a prediction2. strong feeling of future misfortune “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of ann enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” |
| Eccentricities | (n) 1.odd behavior2. being unrecognized “I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever” |
| Satiate | (v) 1.to satisfy to full 2. supply to excess “I shall satiate my ardent 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 a man. |
| Ardent | (adj) 1. intense2. passionate feeling “I shall satiate my ardent 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 a man” |
| Induce | (v) 1. to lead2. to persuade “These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat” |
| Conjectures | (n) 1. an opinion 2. theory without proof (v) 3. conclude from insufficient evidence”But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you can not contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage” |
| Ardour | (n) 1. great warmth 2. intense eagerness “I have red with ardor the accounts of the various voyages which have been made in the prospect of arriving at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole” |
| Injunction | (n) 1. a command an order 2. demand “On learning that my fathers dying injunction bad forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life” |
| Effusions | (n) 1. act of pouring forth 2. unrestrained expression 3.Pathology 4. Physics “These visions faded when I pursued, for the first time, those poets who’s effusions entranced my soul and lifted to heaven” |
| Consecrated | (v) 1. to make sacred 2. to change into Eucharist (adj.) “I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated” |
| Injuring | (v) 1. damage 2. hurt 3. wound or offend “I commenced by injuring my body to hardship” |
| Sledges | (n) 1. a sleigh “They fly quickly over the snow in their sledges..” |
| Fortnight | (n) 1. space of fourteen days and nights, 2 weeks “I shall depart for the latter town in a fortnight or three weeks; and my intention is to hire a ship there |
frankenstein letter 1
February 20, 2020