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Frankenstein Vocab
An easy visual tool to help students understand some of the more confusing vocabulary terms used in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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English
11th Grade
03/25/2012

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Plaited
Definition
To interweave the strands or locks of something[image]
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Penury
Definition
Extreme, overwhelming poverty
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Sublime
Definition
Lofty, grand, or exalted in thought, expression or manner
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Filial
Definition
having or assuming the relation of a child or offspring
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Recapitulation
Definition
a brief overview or summary

*Think "recap"*
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Palpable
Definition
capable of being felt or touched
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Emaciated
Definition
To waste away physically
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Incipient
Definition
beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage
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Lassitude
Definition
Weariness of body or mind from strain or activity.
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Shroud
Definition
something that covers or conceals like a garment
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Vacillating
Definition
waver in mind, will or feeling; hesitate in choice of options
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Diffident
Definition
lacking confidence in ones own ability;shy
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Prognosticate
Definition
to forecast or foretell from current signs or symptoms
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Candor
Definition
Unreserved honest, or sincere expression

*Think "Candid"*
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Conjecture
Definition
the formation of an opinion without sufficient evidence
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Perdition
Definition
utter destruction, eternal damnation
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Ephemeral
Definition
lasts a very short time; short lived
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Impetuous
Definition
marked by force and violence of movement or action
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Rent
Definition
to remove from place by violence
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Dissoluble
Definition
capable of being dissolved

*Think of "soluble"*
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Assuage
Definition
To lessen the intensity of something
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Hovel
Definition
any dirty, disorganized dwelling

*The creatures home in the shed at the cottage was a hovel*
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Enigmatic
Definition
Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious

*Think of "enigma"*
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Execration
Definition
act of cursing or denouncing
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Squalid
Definition
Dirty or wretched, as from poverty or lack of care
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Subsist
Definition
to remain alive

*Think of "subsistence farming- growing enough to stay alive"*
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Ensuing
Definition
to follow in order

*Think of "pursuing- following something"
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Mandate
Definition
an authoritarian order or command
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Depreciate
Definition
to represent as of little value or merit

*Think of "not appreciating"*
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Tumult
Definition
a violent agitation of the mind; a disorderly agitation of milling about of a crowd, usually with uproar and confusion
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Spurned
Definition
reject with unwant or respect
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Vestige
Definition
a visible trace or evidence of something that once existed that appears no more

*Think "Vision"*
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Detrimental
Definition
causing damage or harm
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Malice
Definition
intention to do evil
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Acquiesced
Definition
agree or consent without protest
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Indolence
Definition
habitual laziness; sloth

*Think "indolent"*
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Palpitate
Definition
To beat rapidly and strongly

*A heart palpitates*
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Expedite
Definition
to speed up the progress of; hasten

*Think "Expedia- The website that makes travel faster"*
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Presentimate
Definition
a feeling that something bad is about to happen.

*Think "Predict"*
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Atrocious
Definition
horrible or awful
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Precarious
Definition
dependent on circumstances beyond one's control
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Vexation
Definition
frustration; annoyed
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Consternation
Definition
a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion
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Invective
Definition
a speech insulting someone
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Doppelganger
Definition
ghostly mirror image of one's self

*Think of "Facebook's Doppelganger Week"*
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Autodidact
Definition
self taught

*Think of "auto- does it by itself"*
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Hubris
Definition
extreme pride with brings about one's downfall

*Think of Victor's pride*
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Epistolary Novel
Definition
story written as a series of letters
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Chimera
Definition
combination of multiple genomes *Think of the creature in Greek mythology:* Heads of a lion and a goat, and a snake for a tale"*[image]
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Frame Story
Definition
where a story is told with in a story

*Think of "Inception- a dream, within a dream, within a dream...= a story, within a story, with in a story..."*
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