Frankenstein Chapters 6-10

Define prognosticate

• an educated guess

• to forecast or predict from facts

• to use guile

• to be progressive

Define promontory

• to suggest progress

• a promotion

• high point of land extending from the coast into the land

• seeking approval

Define ignominious

• shameful, disgraceful

• joyous or happy

• ignorant, not too bright

• very sorrowful

Define exculpated

• to no longer practice

• a former prisoner

• to be dishonored

• to free from blame

Define obdurate

• easily frightened

• stubborn or not repentant

• obnoxiously happy

• mourning

Define perdition

• heavenly abode

• loss of one's mind

• loss of one's soul

• place of ridicule

Define sacrilege.

• shameful conduct

• keenly distressing

• an intentional injury to anything considered holy

• not changeable

Shelly makes reference to a poem by ______ when she writes of "mutability."

• Lord Byron

• Percy Shelley

• Victor Frankenstein

• Professor Xavier

Define purloined.

• part of inner thigh

• stolen

• brisket meat

• to make lively

Define offal.

• waste parts of butchered meat

• finest cuts of beef

• something that smells bad

• grits & gravy