Benevolent Ch9: I had begun life with benevolent intentions and thirsted for the moment when I should
put them in practice and make myself useful to my fellow beings.
put them in practice and make myself useful to my fellow beings.
Our definition: Kind
My sentence: He was a benevolent soul.
Perceptible Ch9:My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits
and endeavoured…..
and endeavoured…..
Our definition: Seeing or unable to see.
My sentence: He found it perceptible.
Augment Ch9:‘but is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their
unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?
unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?
Our definition: To make great or bigger.
My sentence: He augmented the situation more than it had to be.
Abhorrence Ch9:My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived.
Our definition: Revolting, disgusting or gross.
My sentence: The toilets were a scene of abhorrence.
Sublime Ch9:But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose...
Our definition: Excellent.
My sentence: The sight was truly sublime.
Malignity Ch10:tenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while...
Our definition: Unhappiness and distress.
My sentence: The malignity he force on the people was shocking.
Contempt Ch10: Felix rejected his offers with contempt, yet when he saw the lovely Safie….
Our definition: Worthless, unworthy.
My sentence: She felt contempt, from all the bullying and distress she has experienced.
Spurn Ch10: Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by
ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
Our definition: Avoid, or shut out.
My sentence: My former friends spurn me.
Ignominy Ch9: and that consoles me, going as I am to suffer ignominy and death.’
Our definition: Pain and disgrace.
My sentence:
Render Ch9: Have we lost the power of rendering you happy?
Our definition: Classified.
My sentence: I render you as a crazy person.
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