Anthony Hage

October 18, 2011

AP English

Frankenstein - Reading Guide Preface-p.18

afforded: given; provided affords: gives as an effect or a result; provides; yields ameliorate: get better, make better amiableness: a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) apparition: an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly ardent: characterized by intense emotion, glowing or shining like fire assailed: to attack violently capacious: large in capacity capitulated: surrendered compass: surround conciliating: becoming agreeable, appeasing, calming; satisfying confer: present culled: chose, selected delineating: to trace the outline of, describe desolation: a bleak and desolate atmosphere, sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned discernment: ability to make good judgments draught: a dose of liquid medicine dross: worthless material that should be removed eccentricity: strange and unconventional behavior effusions: unrestrained outpouring of feelings emaciated: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold enervating: tiring, weakening environs: the area in which something exists or lives evinced: displayed fancy: have a fancy or particular liking or desire for fastidious: giving and careful attention to detail foreboding: a feeling of evil to come foster: help develop, help grow gallant: having or displaying great dignity or nobility, unflinching in battle or action imperatively: in an imperative and commanding manner impertinent: not pertinent to the matter under consideration

Anthony Hage

October 18, 2011

AP English

inexorable: not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course irrevocably: unable to be changed or reversed lineaments: features, especially of the face lot: any collection in its entirety niche: organism's role, or job, in its habitat paroxysm: a sudden outburst; a spasm, convulsion poignant: deeply affecting, touching; keen or sharp in taste or smell quelling: forceful prevention rashly: hastily or without thinking remotest: furthest away repose: lean in a comfortable resting position satiate: fill to satisfaction serene: completely clear and fine solicit: to ask for in a formal way solicitude: a feeling of excessive concern specters: ghostly images; phantoms suppliant: humbly entreating