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Frankenstein Vocab, vol. III

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"...I could not collect the courage to _____________ my work."

a)

recommence

b)

dissipate

c)

eradicate

d)

salutation

2.

"and, on my return, I met the _________ of my friends with a readier smile and a more cheerful heart."

a)

salutations

b)

dissipate

c)

dilatory

d)

machination

3.

"...yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was ________ me."

a)

enjoined

b)

eradicated

c)

dissipated

d)

exaserpated

4.

"My father saw this change with pleasure, and he turned his thoughts towards the best method of _______ the remains of my melancholy..."

a)

eradicating

b)

dissipating

c)

exasperating

d)

traversing

5.

"But it is this gloom, which appears to have taken so strong a hold of your mind, that I wish to _______."

a)

dissipate

b)

dilatory

c)

exasperate

d)

traverse

6.

"The latter method of obtaining the desired intelligence was _________ and unsatisfactory."

a)

dilatory

b)

machination

c)

tempest

d)

avail

7.

"During my absence I should leave my friends unconscious of the existence of their enemy, and unprotected from his attacks, _______ as he might be by my departure."

a)

exasperate

b)

machination

c)

eradicated

d)

dissipated

8.

"...and my present sensations strongly intimated that the fiend would follow me, and exempt my family from the danger of his _________."

a)

machinations

b)

tempest

c)

blight

d)

mien

9.

"After some days spent in listless indolence, during which I ________ many leagues..."

a)

traversed

b)

availed

c)

blight

d)

exasperated

10.

"I have seen this lake agitated by a _______, when the wind tore up whirlwinds of water, and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean."

a)

tempest

b)

avail

c)

antiquity

d)

traversed

11.

"I was principally occupied with the means of obtaining the information necessary for the completion of my promise, and quickly ________ myself of the letters of introduction..."

a)

availed

b)

traversed

c)

alleged

d)

exasperated

12.

"But a _______ had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me..."

a)

blight

b)

mien

c)

allege

d)

machination

13.

"He was for ever busy; and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected _____."

a)

mien

b)

machinations

c)

antiquity

d)

salutations

14.

"I often refused to accompany him, _______ another engagement, that I might remain alone."

a)

alleging

b)

availing

c)

traversing

d)

dissipating

15.

"Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford; for the _________ of the latter city was more pleasing to him."

a)

antiquity

b)

machinations

c)

blight

d)

tempest