Week 3 - Amplify 8C: Frankenstein Vocab

incorrigible

• tending to follow rules and guidelines

• easily influenced by others

• to be beyond correcting, improving, or changing

• capable of being reformed or improved

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

infamy

• being famous for something bad or negative

• the quality of being honest and trustworthy

• being well-known and celebrated

• being admired and respected by others

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

integrate

• to make things more difficult and disorganized

• to separate, isolate from a group

• to take something whole and break it into pieces

• to make parts of something into a whole

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

prolonged

• long and drawn-out — it's taking longer than it should

• rude and sudden

• a brief moment

• a short summary or explanation

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

companion

• a person who prefers to be alone

• a lonely and isolated individual

• one who serves as a friend or partner in something

• one who is unkind and keeps to themselves

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

fraught

• lacking in value or importance

• empty and with no meaning

• calm and peaceful

• filled with something-often something bad

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

scourge

• a person of great wisdom and knowledge

• something that makes people miserable or causes them great pain and torment

• something that brings peace and harmony

• a solution to all problems and challenges

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

spurn

• to reject with intense dislike

• to negotiate and compromise

• to support and encourage enthusiastically

• to invite and accept with open arms

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

distinguish

• to blend or combine things together

• to confuse or mix up

• to hide something from view

• to tell apart

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4