Frankenstein Vocabulary Words

The ogre headed up the hill and to his abode.

Which is the best definition of the word, abode?

• A place of worship

• A place of residence

• A type of medical solution

• kind and compassionate

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Frasier is very placid and it takes a lot to make him mad.

What is the most likely definition of the word placid?

• Furiously angry

• kind and compassionate

• Brave or heroic

• Not easily upset or excited

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Match the following words and definitions.

• Galvanism

• Brave or heroic

• Dominion

• Electricity produced by a chemical action

• Benevolent

• Kind and compassionate

• Diffidence

• Modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self confidence

• Gallant

• Sovereignty or control

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Lewis absolutely abhorred the Ferrari team and turned them down when they offered him a contract to drive for them.

What does the word abhorred mean as used in the text?

• The jaw or throat of a voracious person

• A complex structure within an organism or structure

• The state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant

• Regard or disgust with hatred

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Max Verstappen had a sore throat and broke out in a horrible rash. He took an elixir from the medical tent and was still able to race at Monaco.

What does the word elixir mean?

• A particular type of medical solution

• Liability or tendency to change

• To be brave or heroic

• To change or reverse something

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Match the following

• Place of residence

• Maw

• Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing

• Benevolent

• Furiously angry

• Livid

• Kind and Compassionate

• Eloquence

• The jaw or throat of a voracious person

• Abode

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What does the word strove mean?

• The quality of being attractive and animated

• Not easily upset or excited

• The quality of being eccentric

• Make great efforts to achieve or obtain something

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Having or showing great warmth or intensity or spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc.

• Fervent

• Strove

• Eccentricities

• Irrevocably

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Something used to attract or tempt someone

• Paroxysm

• Enticements

• Fastidious

• Placid

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Match the following

• viasity

• Spread and be perceived in every part of

• squalor

• In a way that cannot be changed, reversed, or recovered

• mutability

• liability or tendency to change

• pervade

• State of being extremely dirty and unpleasant

• irrevocably

• Quality of being attractive and animated

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4