Vocabulary Ch. 10-141-5: Circle the context clues in the sentence

Impervious: incapable of being penetrated, allowing no passage

Uncouth: crude, unrefined, awkwardOffals: waste parts of a butchered animal;

rubbishAssuage: to make less severe; to satisfy or

appeasePurloined: stolen

Pensive: thoughtfulVenerable: worthy of respect or reverence due to

age, character, or importanceConciliating: to overcome the hatred of; to win

favor; make calm and amenable; pacify, reconcileConjecture: guess, theorizeIndignation: anger at something unworthy or

unjust

Frankenstein 11-15• expostulate - remonstrate in a friendly way;

reason earnestly• arbiters - one who has power to judge or

decide• execration - to denounce; to hate, to abhor or

loathe• declamatory - overblown style of speaking,

verbose• zeal - eager desire or effort, enthusiasm

• facilitated - made easy; helped bring about, assisted

• adverse - unfavorable, harmful• indelibly - permanently, something not easily

erased• unsullied - untainted, perfect cleanliness• subsist - to exist