Frankenstein Vocabulary Chapters 1-5
1. indefatigable– tireless 2. intimate very familiar, close 3. pittance - very small amount; a trifling 4. disconsolate - hopelessly sad 5. interment - burial 6. recompensing - reward; pay back, or payment 7. penury - very great poverty 8. ardor - great intensity; passion; strong enthusiasm 9. sublime - exalted; inspiring awe 10. rapture - elation; exhilaration 11. infidels - without religion or belief; an atheist 12. caprice - impulsive change of mind, whim 13 filial - affectionate; obedient; pertaining to a son or daughter 14.metaphysical - mystical, abstract, spiritual 15. predilection - preference, partiality
16. menaced - threatened, put in peril 17. prognosticated - to predict on the basis of present indications 18. fortitude - valor; determination 19. deferred - to put off, delay, postpone 20. zeal - eagerness, enthusiast 21. imbued - saturated, filled 22. reprobate - morally unprincipled person 23. elixir - sweetened solution containing medicine 24. palpable - acceptable to the mind or sensibilities 25. erroneously - mistakenly 26. physiognomy - facial features which reveal characteristics 27. dogmatism - authoritarian assertion of opinion 28. abstruse - difficult to understand 29. emaciated - starved, extremely thin 30 . incipient beginning, early stage