Frankenstein Vocabulary 1

Senior year feels perpetual but will be over before we know it.

• Relating to the branch of biology that deals with the normal functions of living organisms and their parts.

• Never ending or changing.

• Convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral.

• Fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Her voice was low but vehement.

• Third in order or level.

• Having or displaying a passionate intensity.

• The burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb, typically with funeral rites.

• Showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

He folded up his newspaper, his curiosity satiated.

• Satisfy (a desire or an appetite) to the full.

• Hoped for but illusory or impossible to achieve.

• Not honorable in character or purpose.

• Cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Some presidential candidates are running ineffectual campaigns.

• Implying or seeming to imply that something bad is going to happen.

• Not producing any or the desired effect.

• Enthusiastic or passionate.

• Persisting tirelessly.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5B

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

Martin Luther King Jr. was an indefatigable defender of human rights.

• Of the nature of, due to, or characterized by reverence.

• Convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral.

• Make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate.

• Persisting tirelessly.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Sir Lancelot felt ignoble feelings of intense jealousy towards King Arthur.

• Not honorable in character or purpose.

• Never ending or changing.

• Make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate.

• Having or displaying a passionate intensity.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The criminal is recompensing for his crime by serving time in jail.

• Relating to the branch of biology that deals with the normal functions of living organisms and their parts.

• Make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate.

• Hoped for but illusory or impossible to achieve.

• Succeed in persuading or influencing (someone) to do something.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

None of these measures induced a change of policy.

• Make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate.

• Satisfy (a desire or an appetite) to the full.

• Cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender.

• Succeed in persuading or influencing (someone) to do something.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Walton makes an allusion to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Frankenstein.

• A comparison using like or as.

• Sensory words or phrases that describe an image.

• An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• A comparison that does not use the words like or as.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Edgar Allen Poe died in a state of virtual penury.

• Extreme poverty; destitution.

• Fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen.

• The burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb, typically with funeral rites.

• Describe or portray (something) precisely.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4