Chapter 19 — Vocabulary
Dracula by Bram Stoker — key words and definitions
Vocabulary Words from Chapter 19
- amenable (adjective)
- Responsive to or willing to submit to; susceptible to a particular treatment or influence.
- malodorous (adjective)
- Having a very unpleasant smell; foul-smelling.
- miasma (noun)
- An oppressive or unpleasant atmosphere; historically, a noxious vapor believed to cause disease.
- loathsomeness (noun)
- The quality of being extremely repulsive, disgusting, or detestable.
- nauseous (adjective)
- Causing a feeling of sickness or disgust; inducing nausea.
- lugubrious (adjective)
- Looking or sounding sad and dismal; mournful in an exaggerated manner.
- baleful (adjective)
- Threatening harm; menacing; having a harmful or destructive influence.
- implacable (adjective)
- Unable to be appeased or placated; relentless and unyielding.
- acquiesced (verb)
- Accepted something reluctantly but without protest; consented passively.
- lethargy (noun)
- A state of sluggishness, drowsiness, or lack of energy; abnormal drowsiness.
- sentience (noun)
- The capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively; awareness or consciousness.
- entreaty (noun)
- An earnest, urgent request or plea.
- obliquity (noun)
- The quality of being indirect or evasive; deviation from moral or mental straightforwardness.
- aperture (noun)
- An opening, hole, or gap, especially one that admits light or allows passage.
- prostrate (adjective)
- Lying stretched out on the ground, face downward; completely overcome or helpless.