Frankenstein Study Questions - Bibb County Schools

3. Vacillating – fluctuating, wavering
The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.
4. Salubrious – [suh-loo-bree-uhs] adj. healthful
We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they
gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the
conversation of my friend.
5. Carnage – destruction of life
Alas! I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery; had he
not murdered my brother?
6. Ignominious – [ig-nuh-min-ee-uhs] disgraceful; discreditable; humiliating
Justine also was a girl of merit, and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy: now all
was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave; and I the cause!
7. Timorous – fearful
….but fear, and hatred of the crime of which they supposed her guilty, rendered them timorous and
unwilling to come forward.
8. Obdurate – [ob-doo-rit] unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn;
unyielding
He threatened excommunication and hell fire in my last moments, if I continued obdurate.
9. Perdition – damnation, complete ruin
Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition.
10. Inexorable – [in-ek-ser-uh-buhl] relentless; unyielding; unalterable;
…happy beyond his hopes; if this inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace
of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments.
VOCABULARY CHAPTERS 10-15
1. Precipitous – [pri-sip-i-tuhs] extremely or impassably steep
The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you
to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.
2. Commiserate – [kuh-miz-uh-reyt] – verb with an object - to feel or express sorrow or
sympathy for; empathize with; pity; verb without an object – to sympathize with
Listen to my tale: when you have heard that, abandon or commiserate me, as you shall judge that I deserve.
3. Slaked – [sleyk] - to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
I slaked my thirst at the brook; and the lying down, was overcome by sleep.
4. Debilitated – [di-bil-i-teyt d] to make weak or feeble
He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields
with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.
5. Inclemency – storminess; severe, rough, or harsh weather, the elements not kind or
merciful.
Here than I retreated, and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency
of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.