Week 1-3 Review - Frankenstein Vocab

Match the following

• exonerate

• use of physical or mental energy; hard work

• illicit

• pronounce not guilty of criminal charges

• relinquished

• not allowed by law or custom

• dissipate

• to disperse or fade away

• exertion

• turn away from; give up

Match the following

• arduous

• difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill

• hypothetical

• something based on an informed guess

• irrevocably

• no going back, unable to be changed or reversed

• fortitude

• strength in the face of adversity or difficulty

Match the following

• preceding

• give moral or emotional strength to

• lustrous

• made smooth and bright; reflecting a sheen or glow

• enormity

• the quality of extreme wickedness

• console

• highly offensive or disgusting

• repellent

• existing or coming before

Match the following

• eloquence

• giving careful attention to detail; hard to please

• incorrigible

• powerful, moving, magnificent use of language

• integrate

• to make parts of something into a whole

• fastidious

• to be beyond correcting, improving, or changing

Match the following

• companion

• one who serves as a friend or partner in something

• spurn

• to reject with intense dislike

• fraught

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

• prolonged

• filled with something — often something bad

Match the following

• degraded

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

• distinguish

• lowered in value

• infamy

• being famous for something bad or negative

• scourge

• to tell apart