| fervent | (adj.) – showing deep feeling |
| satiate | (verb) – to satisfy |
| confer | (verb) – to give, grant or bestow |
| requisite | (adj) – required for a purpose |
| ascertaining | (verb) – finding out |
| dispelled | (verb) – put to rest (in the sense of fading away) |
| injunction | (verb) – authoritative order |
| consecrated | (adj.) – declared sacred |
| inuring | (verb) – becoming accustomed to (something difficult) |
| capacious | (adj.) capable of holding much, roomy |
| dross | (n.) unwanted part |
| dauntless | (adj.) fearless, courageous |
| amassed | (verb) collected or accumulated |
| entreated | (verb) made an earnest request of |
| suppliant | (adj.) describes one who is humbly begging |
| inexorable | (adj.) relentless |
| inclinations | (n.) desires |
| prudence | (n.) wisdom, good judgment and common sense |
| traversed | (v.) crossed, to travel or pass across |
| whither | (adverb) to what place, result, or condition |
| capitulated | (verb) surrendered |
| impertinent | (adj.) rude; disrespectful, insolent |
| conciliating | (adj.) calming; satisfying |
| culled | (verb) picked out; selected |
| evinced | (verb) determined clearly |
| draught | (noun) British draft; the portion drunk |
| paroxysm | (noun) a fit, attack, or sudden increase of symptoms |
| repose | (noun) sleep |
| fastidious | (adj.) particular, oversensitive |
| discernment | (noun) quality of being able to grasp an idea |
| ameliorate | (verb) to make better |
| lineaments | (noun) lines or features of the face |
| indefatigable | (adj.) not tiring |
| effectual | (adj.) able to produce a desired effect |
| procure | (verb) to obtain; get |
| rankling | (noun) thing that causes irritation or anger |
| recompensing | (verb) repaying |
| penury | (noun) extreme poverty |
| divine | (verb) to guess correctly |
| akin | (adj.) the same kind; similar |
| infidels | (nouns) those who have no morals or religious beliefs |
| caprice | (noun) impulse; whim |
| filial | (adj.) related to a child |
| indiscriminately | (adverb) done carelessly or without being particular |
| benefactors | (noun) those who give gifts or benefits to someone |
| sullen | (adj.) gloomy or dismal |
| semblance | (noun) a likeness or image |
| aught | (noun) at all; nothing; zero |
| beneficence | (noun) , the quality or state of being good |
| predilection | (noun) preference |
| inclemency | (noun) , quality of having a temper or lacking mildness |
| apathy | (noun) quality of not caring |
| chimerical | (adj.) given to fantastic schemes |
| tyros | (noun) beginners; novices |
| impediments | (noun) things that stand in the way |
| repined | (verb) complained |
| averred | (verb) declared |
| preceptors | (noun) principals of a school |
| slough | (verb) to shed or cast off |
| multifarious | (adj.) occurring in great variety |
| ardent | (adj.) intense; passionate |
| caprices | (noun) sudden changes in the way one thinks or acts |
| progeny | (noun) offspring |
| avert | (verb) turn away |
| relinquishing | (verb) abandoning; leaving behind |
| immutable | (adj.) unchangeable |
| decreed | (verb) commanded; ordered |
| prognosticated | (verb) predicted |
| benignity | (adj.) favorability; goodness |
| countenance | (noun) facial expression |
| respite | (noun) a rest or break |
| pretence | (noun) act of pretending; make believe |
| chaise | (noun) A chair with a long seat |
| imbibed | (verb) drank in |
| recapitulation | (noun) summary (recap) |
| panegyric | (noun) a speech or essay about a dead person |
| chimera | (noun) a monster with a lion’s head; illusion; fabrication |
| crucible | (noun) a thing for melting materials |
| humblemien | (noun) way of behaving; appearance |
| affability | (noun) friendliness |
| deference | (noun) quality of being humble or showing respect |
| physiognomy | (noun) outward appearance or the inner character shown by it |
| dogmatism | (noun) arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief |
| pedantry | (noun) act of paying too much attention to book learning |
| abstruse | (adj.) difficult to understand |
| facile | (adj.) easily accomplished |
| infallibly | (adv.) done without the possibility of making a mistake |
| conducive | (adj.) to be a help in doing something |
| protracted | (verb) Lengthen in time or space |
| endued | (verb) provided with a quality of power |
| irksome | (adj) tiresome, tedious, annoying |
| recourse | (noun) a source of help |
| minutiae | (noun) trifling matters |
| consummation | (noun) the conclusion |
| precepts | (noun) rules to guide one’s conduct |
| emaciated | (adj.) extremely thin |
| insensible | (adj.) imperceptible; unconscious; unsusceptible |
| incipient | (adj.) beginning to exist or appear |
Frankenstein Vocabulary List 1-98
February 17, 2020