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Frankenstein Vocabulary Chapters 1-5. 1. indefatigable – tireless 2. intimate very familiar, close 3. pittance - very small amount; a trifling 4. disconsolate - hopelessly sad 5. interment - burial 6. recompensing - reward; pay back, or payment
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1. indefatigable– tireless • 2. intimate very familiar, close • 3. pittance - very small amount; a trifling • 4. disconsolate - hopelessly sad • 5. interment - burial • 6. recompensing - reward; pay back, or payment • 7. penury - very great poverty • 8. ardor - great intensity; passion; strong enthusiasm • 9. sublime - exalted; inspiring awe • 10. rapture - elation; exhilaration • 11. infidels - without religion or belief; an atheist • 12. caprice - impulsive change of mind, whim • 13 filial - affectionate; obedient; pertaining to a son or daughter • 14.metaphysical - mystical, abstract, spiritual • 15. predilection - preference, partiality
16. menaced - threatened, put in peril • 17.prognosticated - to predict on the basis of present indications • 18. fortitude - valor; determination • 19. deferred - to put off, delay, postpone • 20. zeal - eagerness, enthusiast • 21. imbued - saturated, filled • 22. reprobate - morally unprincipled person • 23. elixir - sweetened solution containing medicine • 24. palpable - acceptable to the mind or sensibilities • 25. erroneously - mistakenly • 26. physiognomy - facial features which reveal characteristics • 27. dogmatism - authoritarian assertion of opinion • 28. abstruse - difficult to understand • 29. emaciated - starved, extremely thin • 30 . incipient beginning, early stage