"Frankenstein" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Letter 2

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  1. affectionate
    having or displaying warmth or fondness
    Your affectionate brother, Robert Walton
  2. amass
    collect or gather
    Some years ago he loved a young Russian lady of moderate fortune, and having amassed a considerable sum in prize-money, the father of the girl consented to the match.
  3. capacious
    large in the amount that can be contained
    I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my
    own, to approve or amend my plans.
  4. carelessness
    failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
    He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy which otherwise he would...
  5. considerateness
    kind and considerate regard for others
    I shall do nothing rashly: you know me
    sufficiently to confide in my prudence and considerateness whenever the
    safety of others is committed to my care.
  6. dauntless
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
    I have hired a vessel and am occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom I have
    already engaged appear to be men on whom I can depend and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage.
  7. dejection
    a state of melancholy depression
    But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I
    have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by
    disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.
  8. desirous
    having or expressing an inclination to want something
    My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of
    wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.
  9. destine
    decree or designate beforehand
    He saw his mistress once before the destined ceremony; but she was bathed in tears, and throwing herself at his feet, entreated him to spare her, confessing at the same time that she loved another, but that he was poor, and that her father...
  10. detract
    take away a part from; diminish
    He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy
    which otherwise he would command.
  11. disclose
    expose to view as by removing a cover
    You will smile at my allusion, but I
    will disclose a secret.
  12. distaste
    a feeling of intense dislike
    A youth passed in solitude, my best years
    spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed
    it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his
    kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his services.
  13. dreadfully
    of a dreadful kind
    The winter has been dreadfully severe, but the spring promises well, and it
    is considered as a remarkably early season, so that perhaps I may sail sooner than I expected.
  14. dross
    worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
    Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.
  15. encompass
    include in scope
    How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow!
  16. endowment
    natural abilities or qualities
    He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the
    noblest endowments of humanity.
  17. fosterage
    encouragement; aiding the development of something
    A youth passed in solitude, my best years
    spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the
    groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste
    to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never beli
  18. groundwork
    preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation
    A youth passed in solitude, my best years
    spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the
    groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste
    to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed
    it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his
    kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his
    crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his
    services.
  19. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
    But the old
    man decidedly refused, thinking himself bound in honour to my friend,
    who, when he found the father inexorable, quitted his country, nor
    returned until he heard that his former mistress was married according
    to her inclinations.
  20. intertwine
    spin, wind, or twist together
    I am practically
    industrious--painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and
    labour--but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief
    in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out
    of the common pa
  21. kindliness
    friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition
    A youth passed in solitude, my best years
    spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the
    groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste
    to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed
    it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his
    kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his
    crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his
    services.
  22. mildness
    good weather with comfortable temperatures
    The master is a person
    of an excellent disposition and is remarkable in the ship for his
    gentleness and the mildness of his discipline.
  23. painstaking
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
    I am practically
    industrious--painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and
    labour--but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief
    in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out
    of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited
    regions I am about to explore.
  24. peculiarly
    in a manner differing from the usual or expected
    A youth passed in solitude, my best years
    spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the
    groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste
    to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed
    it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his
    kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his
    crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his
    services.
  25. perseverance
    the act of continuing or repeating
    I am practically
    industrious--painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and
    labour--but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief
    in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out
    of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited
    regions I am about to explore.
  26. prejudice
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
    He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and
    professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the
    noblest endowments of humanity.
  27. refine
    reduce to a pure state
    A youth passed in solitude, my best years
    spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the
    groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste
    to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed
    it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his
    kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his
    crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his
    services.
  28. undertaking
    any piece of work that is attempted
    I cannot describe to you my sensations on the near prospect of my undertaking.
  29. waver
    pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
    Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can
    conceive a consolation for my toils which I may never know, that I am
    wavering in my resolutions.
  30. woeful
    affected by or full of grief or sadness
    I am going to unexplored regions, to "the
    land of mist and snow," but I shall kill no albatross; therefore do not
    be alarmed for my safety or if I should come back to you as worn and
    woeful as the "Ancient Mariner."
Created on 五月 14, 2011 (updated 五月 17, 2011)

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