Thread: Frankenstein – Vocabulary

Thanks, rockzmom!
It's very interesting. I always enjoy vocabulary tests, because you can often guess the meaning without actually knowing the word.

Do you know what criteria are usually used when compiling this kind of lists? I see a lot of "difficult" or obscure words, while some of them seem very common (like placid or decisive).

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Thanks, rockzmom! It's very interesting. I always enjoy vocabulary tests, because you can often guess the meaning without actually knowing the word.

Good to know... I will try and obtain some others and post them.

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Do you know what criteria are usually used when compiling this kind of lists? I see a lot of "difficult" or obscure words, while some of them seem very common (like placid or decisive).

I don't know the answer to that one but I can tell you that when I was helping her study last night... I didn't know a number of the words or even how to begin to pronounce them!! A few of them I actually remembered from Pride and Prejudice:

Mr. Darcy: I love you. Most ardently. Please do me the honor of accepting my hand.

Elizabeth Bennet: Do you deny it, Mr.Darcy? That you seperated a young couple who loved each other, exposing your friend to the censure world of caprice and *my sister* to derision and dissapointed hopes, involving them both in acute misery of the worst kind and..

Caroline Bingley: How many letters you must have occasion to write in the course of the year! Letters of business too! How odious I should think them!'