Frankenstein Vocab 11.2.16

Question 1

Dilate

Answer 1

Make or become wider; speak or write at length

Question 2

Timorous

Answer 2

Showing or suffering from nervousness fear, or a lack of confidence

Question 3

Progeny

Answer 3

a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring

Question 4

Ignominious

Answer 4

deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

Question 5

Capacious

Answer 5

Roomy

Question 6

Vacillating

Answer 6

alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive

Question 7

Emaciate

Answer 7

abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food

Question 8

Physiognomy

Answer 8

a person’s facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin

Question 9

Penury

Answer 9

Extreme poverty

Question 10

Indefatigable

Answer 10

(of a person or their efforts) persisting tirelessly

Question 11

Countenance

Answer 11

A persons facial expression

Question 12

Cursory

Answer 12

hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed

Question 13

Wantonly

Answer 13

Excessive and uncontrolled

Question 14

Paroxysm

Answer 14

a sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity

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Obliterated

Answer 15

Detroyed

Question 16

Ardent

Answer 16

Enthusiastic or passionate

Question 17

Immutable

Answer 17

Unchanging over time or unable to be changed

Question 18

Posterity

Answer 18

All future generations of people

Question 19

Inexorable

Answer 19

Impossible to stop or prevent

Question 20

Detrimental

Answer 20

Tending to cause harm

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Debiliated

Answer 21

To make someone weak

Question 22

Augment

Answer 22

Make something greater by adding to it

Question 23

Exhortation

Answer 23

an address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something.

Question 24

Benevolent

Answer 24

Well meaning and kindly

Question 25

Abhorrent

Answer 25

Inspiring disgust and loathing

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Commiserate

Answer 26

Sympathize

Question 27

Sanguinary

Answer 27

Involving or causing much bloodshed

Question 28

Precipitous

Answer 28

Dangerously high or steep; doing something uncarefully without consideration

Question 29

Indolence

Answer 29

Lazy

Question 30

Expedient

Answer 30

(of an action) convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral.

Question 31

Sophisms

Answer 31

a fallacious argument, especially one used deliberately to deceive

Question 32

Rankling

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(of a wound or sore) continue to be painful; fester.

Question 33

Retrospect

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a survey or review of a past course of events or period of time

Question 34

Imperious

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assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

Question 35

Satiated

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Satisfied to the full

Question 36

Portend

Answer 36

be a sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous or calamitous) is likely to happen

Question 37

Conflagration

Answer 37

an extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property

Question 38

Inclemency

Answer 38

Of weather- unpleasant, cold, wet

Question 39

Sustenance

Answer 39

Food and drink

Question 40

Carnage

Answer 40

The killing of a large number of people