Vocabulary - Frankenstein Chapters 10-15
Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text.
Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with
your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean
in the space provided.
1. The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short
windings, which enable youto surmount the perpendicularity of the
mountain.
2. Listen to my tale: when you have heard that, abandon or commiserate
me, as you shall judge that I deserve.
3. I slaked my thirst at the brook; and the lying down, was overcome by
sleep.
4. He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and
quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his
debilitated form hardly appeared capable.
5. Here then I retreated, and lay down happy to have found a shelter,
however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more
from the barbarity of man.
6. 6.& 7. I had first, however, provided for my sustenance for the day, by a
loaf of coarse bread, which I purloined, and a cup with which I could
drink...
8. The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my
reverence, while the gentle manner of the girl enticed my love.
9. The mild exhortations of the old man, and the lively conversation of the
loved Felix were not for me.
10.
A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her religion and her
feelings were alike adverse to it.
Vocabulary - Frankenstein Chapters 10-15 continued
Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their
dictionary definitions.
___ 1. precipitous
A. steep
___ 2. commiserate
B. quenched
___ 3. slaked
C. storminess
___ 4. Debilitated
D. stolen
___ 5. inclemency
E. urgings
___ 6. sustenance
F. detested, hated
___ 7. purloined
G. generous
___ 8. benevolent
H. means of food or nourishment
___ 9. Exhortations
I. weakened
___10. abhorrent
J. feel or express sympathy for