Fahrenheit 451 vocabulary part 1
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- Q1Revealing little emotion or sensitivity; impassivestolid30s
- Q2A pipe, tube, or channel for conveyance (usually of hot air, gas, steam, smoke... in this case = air-propelled subway track)flue30s
- Q3to float or drift smoothly, easily, gently through airwaft30s
- Q4syn= LIGHTER; mechanical device used to illuminate, to start a fire and/or to create heatigniter30s
- Q5a drug that works against the effects of her overdose of sleeping pills (contra = counter/against/opposite; sedative = tranquilizer)contra sedative30s
- Q6a natural propensity, inclination, tendency, predisposition (syn= PREDILECTION)proclivities30s
- Q7arousing or meriting strong dislike; intense displeasure (syn= HATEFUL)odious30s
- Q8an apparatus consisting of a compartment spun about a central axis to separate materials of different gravitiescentrifuge30s
- Q9jarring, discordant, disagreeable combination of soundscacophony30s
- Q10A musician, singer, or poetminstrel30s
- Q11MYTHICAL, IMMORTAL BIRD THAT LIVES FOR 500 YEARS, BURNS ITSELF TO DEATH, AND RISES FROM THE ASHES; ANYTHING THAT IS RESTORED AFTER SUFFERING GREAT DESTRUCTIONphoenix30s
- Q12puppet moved by stringsmarionette30s
- Q13a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewingthimble30s
- Q14Medicated tablet or disk that dissolves in the mouthlozenge30s
- Q15(v.) to ground or pound to a powder or dust; to destroy or overcome (as though by smashing into fragments)pulverize30s