Vocabulary Ch : Circle the context clues in the sentence Impervious: incapable of being penetrated, allowing no passage Uncouth: crude, unrefined, awkward Offals: waste parts of a butchered animal; rubbish Assuage: to make less severe; to satisfy or appease Purloined: stolen

Pensive: thoughtful Venerable: worthy of respect or reverence due to age, character, or importance Conciliating: to overcome the hatred of; to win favor; make calm and amenable; pacify, reconcile Conjecture: guess, theorize Indignation: anger at something unworthy or unjust

Frankenstein expostulate - remonstrate in a friendly way; reason earnestly arbiters - one who has power to judge or decide execration - to denounce; to hate, to abhor or loathe declamatory - overblown style of speaking, verbose zeal - eager desire or effort, enthusiasm

facilitated - made easy; helped bring about, assisted adverse - unfavorable, harmful indelibly - permanently, something not easily erased unsullied - untainted, perfect cleanliness subsist - to exist