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Fahrenheit 451 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abruptly | Suddenly |
| Abyss | Void |
| adders | Snakes, Serpents |
| ballistics | Science of the motion of projectiles in flight |
| bestial | beast-like |
| buckling | yielding, collapsing |
| cacophony | harsh or painful sound |
| centrifuge | machine that uses spinning to stimulate gravitational forces |
| clarified | made clear |
| clenching | tightening |
| condensations | abridgements, summaries |
| conjure | beg; entreat |
| dictum | order; pronouncement of law or a rule |
| dike | dam |
| errected | constructed |
| fathoms | distances (1 = 6 feet) |
| feigning | faking |
| gibbering | babbling |
| gilt | golden |
| gorging | greedily eating |
| arsonists | someone who sets fire to building |
| beatific | blissful |
| cadenced | rhythmic; measured |
| certitude | certainty |
| chaff | worthless things; worthless part |
| contemptible | worthy of hate |
| discource | conversation |
| dispersing | scattering |
| diverted | turned away |
| enameled | painted |
| insidious | treacherous |
| lingusts | those who study language |
| manifested | asserted; made known |
| moor | boggy area |
| parried | warded off a punch |
| perfunctorily | briefly |
| praetorian | resembling a Roman imperial bodyguard |
| welter | chaotic mass |
| subside | slow; then stop |
| verbiage | too many words used to convey too little meaning |