Vocab for Frankenstein

Question 1

dross

Answer 1

somethign regarded as worthelss; rubbish

Question 2

ameliorate

Answer 2

make something bad or unsatisfactory better

Question 3

indefatigable

Answer 3

incapable of being fatigued; untiring

Question 4

penury

Answer 4

extreme poverty; oppressive lack of resources

Question 5

vehement

Answer 5

showing strong feeling, forceful, passionate, or intense

Question 6

inclemecy

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the quality of weather of being unpleasant especially with cold and rain

Question 7

chimerical/chimera

Answer 7

existing only as the produc of an unchecked imagination; fanciful

Question 8

affability

Answer 8

quality of being at ease and pleasant in talking to others

Question 9

convalescene

Answer 9

the time spent to recover from an illness and regain health gradually

Question 10

dilatoriness/dilatory

Answer 10

tending to delay or procrastinate; slow, tardy

Question 11

salubrious

Answer 11

favorable or promoting health or well-being

Question 12

venerable

Answer 12

calling forth respect through age, character, wisdom or attainment

Question 13

ignominy

Answer 13

great public shame, disgrace or embaressment

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inexorable

Answer 14

impossible to stop or prevent

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enigmatic

Answer 15

something difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious

Question 16

poignant

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in a way that causes a feeling of sadness

Question 17

vestige

Answer 17

the smallest amount of something

Question 18

sanguinary

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involving or causing much bloodshed; bloody and murderous

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sedulous

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diligent in application or process

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promontory

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a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water

Question 21

dissipate

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dissappear or cause to dissappear; mostly referring to a feeling or something intangible

Question 22

torpor

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mental inactivity; lethargy

Question 23

impassive

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unsuscpetible to pain or physical feelings, unfeeling

Question 24

immured

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to enclose withing or as if within walls

Question 25

superfluous

Answer 25

not needed or unnecessary