Frankenstein Vocab Chaps 11-14 Flashcards

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Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense; satisfy (an appetite or desire).

A

Assuage

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Unable to be affected by.

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Impervious

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Without consolation or comfort; unhappy.

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Disconsolate

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Weak and infirmed; hindered or delayed.

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Debilitated

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4
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Stole (something).

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Purloined

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Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious.

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Enigmatic

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A person’s manner of walking.

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Gait

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Addresses or communications emphatically urging someone to do something.

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Exhortations

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Characterized by, feeling, or expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm.

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Rapturously

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Bombastic; rhetoric; ostentatiously or pretentiously lofty in style.

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Declamatory

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A young shoot or twig of a plant; a descendant (of a notable person or family).

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Scion

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(Of something considered wrong or immoral) conspicuously or obviously offensive.

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Flagrant

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12
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Feel or express strong disapproval of (something).

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Deplored

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13
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Having an extremely offensive smell; disagreeable; unpleasant.

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Noisome

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