Chapter 20 — Vocabulary
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley — key words and definitions
Vocabulary Words from Chapter 20
- sophisms
- Clever but false arguments intended to deceive.
- casement
- A window or window frame that opens on hinges.
- insatiate
- Impossible to satisfy; perpetually greedy or hungry.
- inexorable
- Impossible to stop, prevent, or persuade; unyielding.
- precipitate
- To cause to happen suddenly or to throw headlong.
- insuperable
- Impossible to overcome; insurmountable.
- sanguinary
- Involving or causing much bloodshed; bloodthirsty.
- reverie
- A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream (here used to describe a dark, consuming fantasy).
- condescension
- An attitude of patronizing superiority; here used to mean a willingness to lower oneself to reason with an inferior.
- promontory
- A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea.
- ignominy
- Public shame or disgrace.
- unremitting
- Never relaxing or slackening; constant and persistent.
- debility
- Physical weakness, especially as a result of illness or exhaustion.
- requite
- To make appropriate return for; to repay or reciprocate.