- children, descendants, offspring

Frankenstein Vocabulary progeny - children, descendants, offspring
immutable - not susceptible to change
Prologue
Chapters III and IV
fervent - passionate, glowing
perpetual - never ending, eternal menaced - threatened, put in peril
diffusing - to pour out, spread imprudence - unwise
phenomena - fact, event, or circumstance that can be prognosticated - to predict on the basis of present
observed, usually considered extraordinary or indications
remarkable fortitude - valor; determination
eccentricities - deviating from a conventional pattern benignity - kindly disposition; gracious
ardent - characterized by strong enthusiasm irreparable - hopeless, irreversible
induce - to persuade deferred - to put off, delay, postpone
requisite - required; a necessity zeal - eagerness, enthusiast
dominion - sphere of influence or control chaise - two-wheeled, open carriage
tranquilize - to make calm, peaceful, quiet imbued - saturated, filled
effusions - a pouring out of unrestrained expressions reprobate - morally unprincipled person
or feelings recapitulation - the act of being repeated;
inuring - to become used to something undesirable by summarized
prolonged subjection panegyric - speech filled with praise, compliments
dauntless - without fright or discouragement elixir - sweetened solution containing medicine
inexorable - relentless, unyielding palpable - acceptable to the mind or sensibilities
allusion - reference to a historically significant person, mien - appearance, look
place, or event erroneously - mistakenly
solicitude - concern, anxious care physiognomy - facial features which reveal
capitulated - surrender on terms or conditions characteristics
repose - rest or sleep dogmatism - authoritarian assertion of opinion
conciliating - reconciling, a winning over pedant - one who flaunts learning
paroxysm - a spasm, fit, or sudden outburst abstruse - difficult to understand
ameliorate - improve, to become or make better facile - achieved with little effort
esteem - high regard, favorable opinion
Chapters I and II receptacle - a container or place for keeping things
emaciated - starved, extremely thin
indefatigable - tireless unhallowed - not sacred, wicked, sinful, evil
intimate - very familiar, close incipient - just beginning, early stage
rankling - soreness, great pain
plaited - weave, braid Chapters V and VI
pittance - very small amount; a trifling
disconsolate - hopelessly sad delineate - describe in words
interment - burial lassitude - weariness
recompensing - reward; pay back, or payment shroud - burial cloth or garments
penury - very great poverty demoniacal - devilish, very wicked
chamois - small, goat–like antelope palpitation - throbbing, beating rapidly
ardor - great intensity; passion; strong enthusiasm languor - lack of enthusiasm
sublime - exalted; inspiring awe allude - hint at, mention slightly
rapture - elation; exhilaration unremitting - steady
infidels - without religion or belief; an atheist pertinacity - great persistence, not giving up,
indulgence - liberal or lenient treatment continuing, stubbornness
caprice - impulsive change of mind, whim remorse - deep, painful regret
filial - affectionate; obedient; pertaining to a son or fetter - restrain, tie up
daughter placid - peaceful, quiet
metaphysical - mystical, abstract, spiritual perversity - abnormality, difference
predilection - preference, partiality dissipate - totally scatter, dispel
inclemency - severity of weather, stormy vivacity - liveliness
chimerical - illusionary, fanciful, dreamlike vacillating - unsteady, wavering
avidity - eagerness; greediness antipathy - strong dislike, hate
imbued - filled with ideas, feelings, etc. encomiums - songs of praise, highly complimentary
tyros - beginners, amateurs diffident - lacking in self-confidence
tertiary - third place or rank eulogy - speech or writing in praise of the dead
impediments - hindrance; block dilatoriness - lateness, not prompt
repined - express discontent perambulations - walks or strolls
averred - to declare in a positive, formal way salubrious – healthful

Chapters VII and VIII diabolically - devilishly, wickedly
dissoluble - capable of being dissolved
prognosticate - to forecast, to predict from facts negligently - habitually guilty of neglect
tedious - long and tiring irrevocably - incapable of being retracted or revoked
promontory - a high point of land extending from the commiserate - to feel or express sorrow or pity; to
coast into the land sympathize
dirge - funeral song
precipices - cliff, crag, steep mountainside Chapters XI and XII
venerable - worthy of respect or reverence due to age,
character, or importance opaque - impenetrable by or not reflecting light
alleviate - to relieve, to lessen, to make easier impervious - incapable of being penetrated, allowing
deposition - testimony under oath or sworn testimony no passage
in writing dormant - inactive; resembling sleep
candor - speaking honestly, frankness, sincerity orb - a sphere
mockery - to ridicule, to make fun of canopied - covered
ignominious - shameful, disgraceful, dishonorable mode - a method, way, or manner of doing something
exculpated - to free from blame, prove guiltless uncouth - crude, unrefined, awkward
countenance - facial expressions inarticulate - not distinct; irregular speech
execrated - detested, abhorred offal - waste parts of a butchered animal; rubbish
adduced - to give as proof or evidence assuage - to make less severe; to satisfy or appease
indignation - anger at something unworthy or unjust rambles - wanderings
conjecture - guess, theorize disconsolate - gloomy, helplessly sad, despairing
wantonly - done in a reckless and malicious way; not hovel - small, miserable dwelling
moral barbarity - inhuman; harsh or cruel conduct;
timorous - timid, easily frightened uncivilized
approbation - approval, favorable opinion purloined - stolen
guile - deceit, sly tricks demeanor - the way a person looks and acts
absolution - freeing from guilt or blame countenance - expression of the face
excommunication - a cutting off or removal from the imperceptible - very slight
church pensive - thoughtful
obdurate - stubborn, obstinate; not repentant symmetry - well-balanced arrangement of parts
perdition - loss of one’s soul; utter loss or destruction venerable - deserving respect because of age,
lamentations - cries of sorrow or grief, wailing, character, or importance
mourning viands - food
enigmatic - an obscure riddle, puzzling, unexplainable
Chapters IX and X poignantly - very touching; keenly distressing to the
mind or feelings
remorse - deep, painful regret for having done wrong abstained - hold oneself back
perceptible - to become aware of or understood articulate - distinctly, clear
through the senses exhortations - urgings by strong appeals
augmenting - making greater in size, number or conjectured - guessed
amount; increasing mortification - shame, humiliation
malice - a desire to hurt or harm others arbiters - one who has power to judge or decide
unalterable - not changeable, permanent conciliating - to overcome the hatred of; to win favor;
efface - rub out, to obliterate make calm and amenable; pacify, reconcile
abhorrence - intense dislike exhilarated - made lively
desponding - becoming disheartened execration - to denounce; to hate, to abhor or loathe
sacrilege - an intentional injury to anything sacred
ephemeral - transitory; lasting for a brief time Chapters XIII and XIV
epoch - beginning of a period of time or era when
something striking happens verdure - fresh greenness of flourishing vegetation
impetuous - impulsive, brash; rushing with violence conjecture - guess or theory based on inconclusive
reverberated - resounded; reflected facts
anon - soon, in a short time dispelling - driving away, scattering
rent - to rip, to make an opening cadence - rhythmic flow, vocal inflection
divert - to turn aside from a direction; to distract or enraptured - filled with great delight
amuse declamatory - overblown style of speaking, verbose
pinnacle - the highest point subsequent - following in time or order
surmount - to overcome; to ascend to the top and degenerating - deteriorating or decaying; morally
cross over degrading
mutability - ability to change scion - a descendant
squalid - very dirty

unsullied - untainted, perfect cleanliness ogre - monster
subsist - to exist epithets - curses; hateful comments
stealth - secret or sly action benignity - kindliness, graciousness
dote - to lavish excessive fondness sanguinary - bloodthirsty or bloody
indignation - anger over something unjust requisition - a demand, a requirement
obnoxious - very disagreeable, offensive; hateful
flagrant - outrageous; glaring Chapters XVII and XVIII
zeal - eager desire or effort, enthusiasm
consummation - completion, fulfillment concede - to acknowledge as true or proper
ensuing - a consequence following immediately precipitate - to bring about suddenly; hasty; rash
afterward insurmountable - unable to overcome
implements - tools contortions - a twisting out of shape
tenets - principles, beliefs detrimental - harmful; causing a disadvantage
indelibly - permanently, something not easily erased detestation - hate, intense dislike
harem - multiple women living in a male-dominated compassionate - helping those that suffer; feeling for
dwelling, like a palace another’s sorrow
emulation - trying to equal or excel malice - a desire to hurt or harm others
facilitated - made easy; helped bring about, assisted feint - a false pretense, movement intended to deceive
exile - person forced to leave his or her country or naught - nothing
home disquisition - a formal discourse
expostulate - remonstrate in a friendly way; reason exordium - an exposition or introduction of a speech
earnestly or composition
reiterating - verbal repetition dissipate - dispel, cause to disappear
mandate - an authoritative command solemnization - to turn into; to observe a formal
adverse - unfavorable, harmful ceremony
candor - speaking openly what one thinks, giving an
Chapters XV and XVI honest opinion
manifold - of many kinds; many and various
deprecate - express strong disapproval of dilatory - tending to delay, not prompt
portmanteau - stiff, oblong traveling bag with two guise - mask; pretense
compartments opening like a book; pouch coveted - eagerly desired (usually something of
disquisition - long or formal speech or writing about a someone else’s)
subject impediment - hindrance, obstacle
vice - fault, bad habit intimated - suggested indirectly, hinted
patriarch - male leader of a family or clan machinations - evil plottings, secret schemes
imbued - filled with; inspired acquiesced - to give in to, to consent passively
alluring - strongly attractive sedulous - hard-working, diligent
sagacity - keen, sound judgment indolence - idleness, laziness
supplication - humble and earnest request or prayer variegated - to give a variety of colors; to diversify
mediation - friendly intervention promontory - point of land extending into the water
intrusion - coming unasked and unwanted chastened - restrained from excess, moderated
instigate - urge on; stir up ineffectual - useless; without effect
consternation - great dismay; paralyzing terror
tumult - commotion Chapters XIX and XX
wantonly - done without reason or excuse; heartlessly
havoc - ruin, injury afforded - to have the financial means for
impotence - helplessness profound - coming from the depths of one’s being;
myriads - countless extremely thoughtful
imprudently - unwisely transitory - existing briefly, short-lived
appeased - satisfied debar - to exclude, forbid, prevent
gesticulations - lively or excited movements of body alleging - stating positively as a reason or excuse
parts palpitate - beat very rapidly, throb
soothed - calmed or comforted novelties - new or unusual things
spurned - refused with scorn expedite - make easy; speed up
inanimate - lifeless remissness - negligence, carelessness in doing what
vestige - trace; track; footprint one has to do
succor - help, aid languid - weak, lacking energy or vitality
imprecate - call down evil curses on antiquity - things from times long ago, great age
rustic - a country person; rough in appearance rendezvous - meeting place
recompense - to award compensation, to make congenial - agreeable
amends for damage dissuade - to discourage from a purpose or course of
imbibed - to take in, to absorb, or assimilate action by persuasion

remonstrate - to protest or object vivacity - liveliness, spirited
benumbed - to make numb or inactive tangible - real, concrete
tumult - commotion, noise, or uproar artifice - ingenuity, subtle deception
immersed - absorbed; involved deeply nuptial - marriage or wedding ceremony
unremitting - incessant, persistent
malignant - highly injurious, showing ill-will Chapters XXIII and XXIV
provocation - causing someone irritation
propagated - to reproduce adversary - opponent, enemy
sophisms - a plausible but mistaken argument acme - the point of highest achievement
profundity - a deep intellectual ability reconciled - to reestablish friendship or love
presentiment - premonition, a sense of something invective - an abusive speech; violent attack with
about to occur words
condescension - patronizing manner incredulity - disbelieving, skeptical
wiliness - calculating physiognomy - facial features that reveal
inexorable - relentless; not capable of being characteristics
persuaded by pleas proportionate - to adjust so that there are proper
insuperable - insurmountable, incapable of being relations between parts
overcome martyr - one who sacrifices, suffers, or dies for
atrocious - horrible, cruel, extremely evil principles
reverie - dreamy thoughts, thinking of pleasant things abjuration - giving up
cultivation - preparing land for crops by plowing and extricate - to release from entanglement or difficulty;
planting disengage
debility - feebleness invoked - to call upon a higher power for aid
politic - prudent; wise in looking out for one’s own bedim - to make less bright
interests repose - to rest
fortitude - courage in facing pain or danger enjoined - commanded; prohibited
instigated - urged on
Chapters XXI and XXII impassive - revealing no emotion, expressionless
ecstasy - condition of great joy, rapture
benevolent - kind, good natured, charitable gibe - to taunt,; to make mocking remarks
deposed - declared under oath sentiment - an opinion based on emotions not fact
supposition - the act of believing an unproven retribution - punishment; something demanded in
statement; an assumption payment; vengeance; requital for some wrong that has
augury - act of predicting the future; an omen been done
apothecary - druggist or pharmacist protraction - prolonging
interment - placement in the grave disencumbered - to relieve or free from hindrance
squalidness - having a dirty appearance appalling - causing horror, terrifying
languid - feeling weak; indifferent congeal - to solidify
livid - ashen or pallid (usually due to anger) imprecations - curses
retrospect - a review or contemplation of past events posterity - generations of the future
incitement - to stir up, urge on, or provoke to anger illustrious - celebrated; famous
repugnance - offensive, repulsive infantile - babyish, childish
delirium - a clouded mental state, confusion eradicated - to destroy totally; to erase
precarious - uncertain, dangerous, risky fraught - attended; accompanied
enraptured - to move to delight imminent - about to occur
vexations - those problems that irritate or annoy deputation - a group appointed to represent others
torpor - apathy; condition of inactivity immure - to imprison
in quietude - a state of uneasiness modulate - to regulate; to vary the frequency of
laudanum - an opium-based drug languor - spiritlessness, sluggishness
indefatigable - untiring, tireless renounce - give up formally
erroneous - mistaken irradiation - illuminations, brightness
unhallowed - unholy purport - to claim or profess the main idea
consternation - sudden confusion or dismay opprobrium - disgrace arising from shameful conduct
curbed - anything that is checked or restrained contumely - insulting treatment
imperious - domineering, overbearing, urgent execrate - to denounce, to abhor
formidable - arousing dread or awe irremediable - incurable, impossible to remedy
augmented - to increase or make more consummate - to complete, to fulfill
futurity - a future event or possibility rankle - to cause irritation
enunciate - to pronounce clearly; articulate conflagration - a big and destructive fire
consecrate - to make sacred
emaciated - extremely thin (usually by starvation or
illness)