Vocabulary • Ch 20 - Frankenstein • Definitions

What is the definition of 'reverie'?

• Daydreaming or being lost in thought

• Acting like you're better than others

• To beg or plead desperately and humbly

• To make someone feel uneasy or upset

What is the definition of 'precarious'?

• To beg or plead desperately and humbly

• To make someone feel uneasy or upset

• Not safe or secure

• Tricky and misleading way of arguing

What word means betraying someone's trust by being disloyal?

• unrequited

• warrant

• treachery

• sophistry

What is the definition of 'contend'?

• Not safe or secure

• Daydreaming or being lost in thought

• To make someone feel uneasy or upset

• To argue or fight for something

What word means extremely bad or terrible?

• unrequited

• hospitable

• sophistry

• atrocious

What is the definition of 'beseech'?

• A paper that allows the police to arrest someone

• To ask for something in a pleading manner

• To purposely make someone angry or upset

• Daydreaming or being lost in thought

What word means acting like you're better than others?

• reverie

• perturb

• condescending

• allot

What is the definition of 'construe'?

• Daydreaming or being lost in thought

• To understand or interpret something

• Not returned or reciprocated

• A paper that allows the police to arrest someone

What word means makes you feel worried or confused?

• hospitable

• disconcerting

• reverie

• sophistry

What is the definition of 'grovel'?

• To beg or plead desperately and humbly

• To give someone or something a share

• To understand or interpret something

• To make someone feel uneasy or upset