| Odious | hateful or detestable |
| Inure | to accustom to hardship; to habituate |
| Capitulate | to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms; to give up resistance |
| Conciliate | to overcoming the distrust of hostility of; to placate or win over |
| Fastidious | excessively particular or demanding |
| Solicitude | state of anxiety or concern |
| Cull | to choose, select, or pick |
| Ameliorate | to make or become better |
| Syndic | civil magistrate having different powers in different countries |
| Plait | to braid, as a hair or straw |
| Interment | act or ceremony of interring; burial |
| Penury | extreme poverty; destitution |
| Vagrant | Person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp |
| Cherub | member of the second order of angels, often represented as a beautiful rosy-cheeked child with wings; person, esp. a child, with a sweet, chubby, innocent face |
| Torrent | stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence |
| Predilection | tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference |
| Inclement | severe, rough, or harsh; stormy; not kind or merciful |
| Chimerical | unreal; imaginary; visionary; wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic |
| Avidity | eagerness; greediness |
| Imbue | to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc |
| Tyro | beginner in learning anything; novice |
| Impediment | obstruction; hindrance; obstacle |
| Repine | to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain |
| Aver | to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner |
| Preceptor | instructor; teacher; tutor |
| Slough | area of soft, muddy ground; swamp |
| Multifarious | having many different parts, elements, forms, etc. |
| Progeny | descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal |
| Abortive | failing to succeed; unsuccessful |
| Imprudence | not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash |
| Prognosticate | to forecast or predict from present indications or signs; prophesy |
| Respite | delay or cessation for a time, esp. of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief |
| Amiable | having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable |
| Repugnance | strong distaste, aversion, or objection; antipathy |
| Imbue | impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions |
| Imbibe | to consume by drinking; to drink |
| Prepossess | to possess or dominate mentally beforehand, as a prejudice does |
| Recapitulation | brief review or summary, as of a speech |
| Panegyric | lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy; formal or elaborate praise |
| Palpable | readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident; capable of being touched or felt; tangible |
| Mien | air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc. |
| Physiognomy | the face or countenance, esp. when considered as an index to the character |
| Pedantry | the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, esp. undue display of learning |
| Abstruse | hard to understand; recondite; esoteric |
| Facile | moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease. sometimes with superficiality |
| Endue | to invest or endow with some gift, quality, or faculty |
| Apparition | supernatural appearance of a person or thing, esp. a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith |
| Insupportable | not endurable; unbearable; insufferable |
| Infallible | absolutely trustworthy or sure |
| Unremitting | not slackening or abating; incessant |
| Emaciated | marked by abnormal thinness caused by lack of nutrition or by disease |
| Incipient | beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage |
| Lassitude | weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc; lack of energy; listlessness; languor |
| Livid | deathly pale; pallid; ashen |
| Languor | lack of energy or vitality sluggishness |
| Incredulous | not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical |
| Specter | visible incorporeal spirit esp. one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition |
| Pertinacity | quality of holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action or opinion resolute |
| Convalescence | gradual recovery of health and strength after illness; period during which one is convalescing |
| Fetter | chain or shackle placed on the feet |
| Dissipate | to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel |
| Antipathy | natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion |
| Docile | easily managed or handled; tractable; teachable |
| Encomium | formal expression of high praise; eulogy |
| Diffident | lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy |
| Dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy |
| Pedestrian | going or performed on foot |
| Perambulate | to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse |
| Salubrious | favorable to or promoting health |
| Verdant | green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass |
| Indelible | making marks that cannot be erased, removed, eliminated or forgotten |
| Deposition | the giving of testimony under oath |
| Depravity | the state of being corrupt, wicked, or perverted |
| Candor | th estate or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression |
| Acquittal | discharge or release |
| Ignominious | discreditable; humiliating |
| Exculpate | to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate |
| Execrate | to detest utterly; abhor; abominate; to curse; imprecate evil upon; damn; denounce |
| Adduce | to bring forward in argument or as evidence; cite as pertinent or conclusive |
| Wantonly | maliciously or unjustifiably |
| Timorous | fearful |
| Tedious | long and tiresome |
| Bauble | showy, usually cheap, ornament; trinket |
| Guile | insidious cunning in attaining a goal; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties |
| Obdurate | unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding |
| Manacle (verb) | to handcuff; fetter |
| Absolution | a freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties |
| Perdition | state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation |
| Inexorable | unyielding; unalterable |
| Hapless | unlucky; luckless; unfortunate |
| Abhorrence | feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination |
| Ephemeral | lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory |
| Pallid | pale; faint or deficient in color; wan |
| Precipitous | characterized by a cliff, or cliffs, with vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face |
| Malignity | state or character of being malign; malevolence; intense ill will; spite |
| Maw | symbolic or theoretical center of a voracious hunger or appetite of any kind |
| Commiserate | to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity |
| Scourge | cause of affliction or calamity |
| Impervious | not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable |
| Offal | refuse; rubbish; garbage |
| Assuage | to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate |
| Disconsolate | without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable |
| Purloin | to take dishonestly; steal |
| Taper | candle, esp. a very slender one |
| Viands | articles of food |
| Abstain | to hold oneself back voluntarily, esp. of fresh flourishing vegetation |
| Immure | to enclose within wall; to shut in; seclude or confine; to imprison |
| Verdure | greenness, esp. of fresh, flourishing vegetation |
| Succor | help; relief; aid; assistance |
| Imprecate | to invoke or call down as upon a person |
| Benignity | the quality of being benign; kindness |
| Sanguinary | full of or characterized by bloodshed; bloody |
| Exordium | the introductory part of an oration, treatise, etc |
| Sedulous | diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous |
| Indolence | the quality or state of slothfulness |
| Palpitate | to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter |
| Ennui | feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom |
| Expedite | to speed up the progress of to hasten |
| Languid | lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow |
| Congenial | agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character |
| Sophism | specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone; any false argument; fallacy |
| Exasperate | to irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely |
| Requite | to give or do in return |
| Insuperable | incapable of being passed over, overcome, or surmounted |
| Promontory | high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland |
| Politic | shrewd or prudent in practical matters; tactful; diplomatic; contrived in a shrewd and practical way; expedient |
| Augury | the art or practice of an augur; divination; an omen, token, or indicaiton |
| Visage | the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.; countenance; aspect; appearance |
| Torpor | sluggish inactivity or inertia |
| Paroxysm | any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion |
| Bier | frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial |
| Invective | vehement or violent denunciation censure, or reproach |
| Adjure | to charge, bind, or command earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty |
| Repast | quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating; a meal |
| Impassive | without emotion; apathetic; unmoved; unconscious; insensible; not subject to suffering |
| Asseveration | an emphatic assertion |
| Mutable | liable or subject to change or alteration |
| Insatiable | incapable of being satisfied or appeased |
| Opprobrium | disgrace or reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy |
| Contumely | insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment |
| Immaculate | spotlessly clean; free from moral blemish or impurity; pure; undefiled |
| Conflagration | destructive fire, usually an extensive one |
| Casuistry | specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning, esp. in questions of morality; fallacious or dishonest application of general principles; sophistry |
Frankenstein Vocabulary
February 19, 2020