1. Frankenstein Vocabulary Chapters 1-5

2. 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

3. 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