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Fahrenheit 451 Vocab
terms 21-40
| Arsonists | someone who sets fire to building |
| Beatific | blissful |
| Cadenced | rhythmic; measured |
| Certitude | certainty |
| Chaff | worthless things; worthless part |
| Contemptible | worthy of hate |
| Discourse | conversation |
| Dispersing | scattering |
| Diverted | turned away |
| Enameled | painted |
| Insidious | treacherous |
| Linguists | those who study language |
| Manifested | asserted; made known |
| Moor | boggy area |
| Parried | warded off a punch |
| Perfunctorily | briefly |
| Praetorian | resembling the Roman imperial bodyguard |
| Welter | chaotic mass |
| Subside | slow; then stop |
| Verbiage | too many words used to convey too little meaning |