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Fahrenheit 451 Def 2
Term | Definition |
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pedantry | showing off |
perfunctory | little interest |
perpetuate | to prolong something |
phoenix | person of unmatched beauty |
prattle | meaningless sounds,babble |
proclivity | inclination,tendency |
profuse | extravagantly abundant |
ravenous | urgently eager for food |
rend | to tear violently |
saccharine | overly sweet attitude |
scythe | instrument for cutting |
serene | calm placid |
stagnant | not flowing |
sroke | to stir up |
stolid | show little emotion |
stratum | horizontal layer |
tactile | capable of being felt |
hearth | The floor of a fireplace |
marionette | A jointed puppet manipulated from above by strings or wires attached to its limbs. |
capillary | any of the smallest blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules and forming networks throughout the body |
pantomime | the art or genre of conveying a story by bodily movements only |
incinerator | a furnace or a container for incinerating waste materials |