- Acquiesce: to agree or submit quietly; consent
- Amiable: friendly; good natured
- Apparition: a ghostly image, ghost, phantom; anything surprising or out of place
- Asperity: roughness or harshness of manner or temper
- Assiduous: diligent; industrious
- Assuaging: to make less burdensome or painful; to satisfy
- Aught: anything whatever; any part; in any degree, at all, in any respect
- Austerity: the condition of being austere; lack of luxury; extreme restraint in spending
- Betrothed: engaged to be married
- Calamitous: causing or concerned with disaster or calamity; disastrous
- Casque: a helmet or other armor for the head
- Cloisters: a monastery, convent, or other place where one may follow a quiet religious way of life
- Cognizance: knowledge or awareness; ability to understand
- Commiseration: a feeling or expression of sorrow or sympathy for the misfortune of another
- Comprehensive: of large scope; including a great deal
- Compunction: an uneasy feeling that one has done something wrong; remorse
- Conjectures: the formation of an opinion or a conclusion from incomplete of insufficient evidence
- Consternation: great and sudden fear that makes one helpless; dismay
- Contiguous: touching or in contact; near or close
- Delirium: a mental condition producing excitement. rambling talk, illusions, etc.
- Diabolic: of, concerning, or characteristic of the devil, satanic
- Dotards: an offensive term for one who is thought to be unable to think clearly
- Doted: to show excessive love or fondness
- Ejaculations: the act or process of ejaculating
- Engrossed: to occupy the complete attention of; absorb
- Espousals: adoption of an idea or cause; a betrothal
- Exorcised: to drive out a devil, evil spirit, or the like by religious or magical rites
- Felicity: great happiness; bliss
- Foolhardy: bold in a foolish way; rash; reckless
- Grandsire: a man who is an ancestor
- Hastily: marked by speed; swift; rapid
- Impede: to delay of interfere with, hinder. obstruct
- Imperiously: arrogant; over-bearing; domineering
- Impertinent: offensively bold; rude
- Impetuosity: the quality or condition of being impetuous
- Impious: not pious or respectful; irreligious
- Improbable: not probable; unlikely
- Infernal: or or relating to hell or a world of the dead; outrageous
- Labyrinth: an intricate arrangement of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way
- Lamentable: deserving of lament or regret
- Necromancer: one who practices communing with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future
- Nuptials: of or relating to marriage or the wedding ceremony
- Obeisance: a bow, curtsy, or other gesture of submission or respect
- Odious: deserving or causing hatred or disgust; detestable; loathsome
- Officiously: to forward in offering help or advice, interfering, meddling
- Ominous: being a sign of trouble, danger, or disaster; threatening
- Plumes: a large feather or clusters of feathers worn as an ornament or symbol of rank,as on a helmet
- Poignarded: keenly distressing or painful; deeply moving
- Populace: the general public; the masses
- Portent: an indication of something important or disastrous
- Precipitately: to make something happen suddenly and quickly
- Precipitation: a headlong fall or rush; abrupt or impulsive hast; a hastening or an acceleration
- Preposterous: contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd
- Prodigious: impressively large in size, force, of extent
- Providence: thrifty preparation for the future; prudent care of money or other resources
- Prudence: the state, quality, of fact of being prudent
- Requite: to make repayment or return for; to repay or make return to
- Sedately: calm, quiet, or solemn
- Serenity: calmness; peacefulness; tranquility
- Severity: the state or quality of being severe
- Solicitude: the state of being solicitous; care of concern, as for another person
- Sterility: not able to produce offspring
- Subterraneous: existing or situated below ground level
- Sullen: Showing ill humor or resentment in a gloomy and silent way
- Supposition: the act or supposing
- Tempestuous: of, relating to, or resembling a tempest
- Traverse: to travel or pass across, over, or through; to move to and fro
- Tyranny: the government or rule of a tyrant; cruel of unjust use of power
- Valor: boldness or determination in facing great danger, hardship, etc.
- Veracity: truthfulness; honesty
- Villainy: the actions or conduct of a villain; wickedness
- Virtuous: having or showing virtue, especially moral excellence; pure
The Castle of Otranto Ch. 1 Vocab.