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Englishvocabpart2451

Vocabulary for part 2 for Fahrenheit 451

TermDefinition
Agony Intense pain of mind or body.
Beatific Having a blissful appearance.
Cadenced The beat, time, or measured of rhymthmical motion or activity; A falling inflection of the voice.
Chaff Something comparatively worthless.
Consoling To help ease pain.
Contemptible Obsolete, scornfuly.
Cowardice Lack of courage or resolution.
Discourse Rationality; Verbal interchange of ideas, expression of thought on a subject.
Dispersing To cause to breakup, to cause to become wide spread.
Diverted To turn aside; distracting
Dune A hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind.
Dwindled To become steadily less.
Enameled To beautify with a colorful surface; to form a glossy surface.
Ferrets An active and persistent searcher.
Filigree Ornamental openwork of delicate or intricate design, or pattern.
Gibbering To speak rapidly and often foolish.
Gnat Various small usually biting dipteran files.
Honed To make more acute, intense, or effective.
Hysterical Behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess.
Incense Pleasing attention; Flattery; the perfume exhaled from some spices and gums when burned.
Insidious Awaiting a chance to entrap; harmful but enticing.
Intuitively Possessing or given to intuition or insight; knowing or perceiving by intuition.
Invigorated To give life and energy to.
Latrine A receptacle for use as a toilet.
Mediocre Of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance; ordinary.
Moor Boggy area dominated by grasses.
Parried To ward off, to evade or turn aside something.
Perfunctorily Lacking interest or enthusiasm.
Phosphorescent An enduring luminescence without sensible heat.
Probing A tentative exploratory advance or survey; penetrating or critical investigation.
Profusion Great quantity.
Rebut To driveor beat back; to contradict.
Strewn To spread by scattering; spread abroad.
Suffused To spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light.
Teem Large quantity; become filled to overflowing.
Created by: bmonica
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