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Fahrenheit 451 Def 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |