Frankenstein Vocabulary Chapters 1-5

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FrankensteinVocabulary Chapters 1-5
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• 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

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• 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