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The Frankenstein Help Page
Items Available:   Crossword Puzzles   Images   Study Help   Vocabulary Words   Mary Shelley Bio   A full text of the novel	1
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Coleridge is here.

 

Crossword Puzzles:

1. Vocabulary Crossword #1 (Puzzle and Clues)

2. Vocabulary Crossword #2 (Puzzle and Clues)

3. Vocabulary Crossword #3 (Puzzle and Clues)

 

Images:

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A portrait of Mary Shelley (Bio)	The "monster" in the Kenneth Branaugh version
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Boris Karloff as the "monster"	The poster from the 1931 film
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Kenneth Branagh as Victor Frankenstein	Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth Lavenza
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The Bride and Frankenstein
	Poster for The Bride of Frankenstein

Vocabulary Words:

1. diffuse (v) to pour forth or to spread out in every direction

2. ardent (adj) intense or passionate

3. requisite (adj) necessary or required

4. peruse (v) to read in a casual manner

5. fortitude (n) strength necessary to deal with misfortune or pain

6. capacious (ad) able to contain much

7. endowment (n) natural quality or ability

8. conception (n) an idea or impression

9. prudent (adj) cautious or careful

10. conjecture (v) to suppose or guess without certain evidence

11. solicitude (n) extreme care or concern

12. capitulate (v) to yield only on certain conditions

13. impertinent (adj) inappropriate

14. dominion (n) power to rule or authority

15. fastidious (adj) difficult to please

16. apt (adj) suitable or appropriate

17. irrevocably (adv) not able to be altered or undone

18. deplore (v) to condemn; to disapprove of

19. pittance (n) a small allowance of money

20. filial (adj) suitable to a son or daughter

21. avid (adj) eager or enthusiastic

22. repine (v) to complain or to express unhappiness

23. immutable (adj) unchanging or constant

24. prognosticate (v) to indicate beforehand or to predict

25. imbibe (v) to take in with the mind

26. panegyric (n) a speech of high praise

27. affectation (n) artificial behavior or pretense

28. dogmatism (n) prejudice or narrow-mindedness

29. incipient (adj) budding or beginning

30. lassitude (n) fatigue or drowsiness

31. excommunication (n) expulsion from the church

32. guile (n) deception or trickery

33. wean (v) to disengage or to phase out

34. pallid (adj) colorless or pale

35. precipitous (adj) steep or dizzying

36. uncouth (adj) bizarre or awkward; without taste

37. hovel (n) a crude cabin or a primitive cottage

38. incommode (v) to discomfort or to hinder

39. appropriate (v) to reserve or to assign

40. abhorrent (adj) contrary to principle or disgusting

41. sage (adj) wise

42. palpitate (v) to flutter or to beat quickly or to beat irregularly

43. languid (adj) disinterested or weary

44. sophism (n) a clever but false reasoning; deception

45. paroxysm (n) a convulsion or a fit

 

1 - http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004RYBY.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

2 - http://adorocinema.cidadeinternet.com.br/filmes/frankenstein/frankenstein01.jpg

3 - http://adorocinema.cidadeinternet.com.br/filmes/frankenstein/frankenstein.htm

4 - http://www.strangemag.com/madscientists/msimages/frankenstein1935szd.jpg

5 - http://harvester.uw.hu/101/frankenstein.jpg

6 - http://www.tumbaabierta.com/literatura/img/victorfrankenstein.jpg

7 - http://www.tumbaabierta.com/literatura/img/elizabeth_2.jpg

8 - http://img.timeinc.net/time/2005/100movies/images/bride_of_frankenstein.jpg

9 - http://www.monstersinmotion.us/books/14js04.html