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Fahrenheit 451 vocabulary part 1

Quiz by Velva Fowler

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  • Q1
    Revealing little emotion or sensitivity; impassive
    stolid
    30s
  • Q2
    A pipe, tube, or channel for conveyance (usually of hot air, gas, steam, smoke... in this case = air-propelled subway track)
    flue
    30s
  • Q3
    to float or drift smoothly, easily, gently through air
    waft
    30s
  • Q4
    syn= LIGHTER; mechanical device used to illuminate, to start a fire and/or to create heat
    igniter
    30s
  • Q5
    a drug that works against the effects of her overdose of sleeping pills (contra = counter/against/opposite; sedative = tranquilizer)
    contra sedative
    30s
  • Q6
    a natural propensity, inclination, tendency, predisposition (syn= PREDILECTION)
    proclivities
    30s
  • Q7
    arousing or meriting strong dislike; intense displeasure (syn= HATEFUL)
    odious
    30s
  • Q8
    an apparatus consisting of a compartment spun about a central axis to separate materials of different gravities
    centrifuge
    30s
  • Q9
    jarring, discordant, disagreeable combination of sounds
    cacophony
    30s
  • Q10
    A musician, singer, or poet
    minstrel
    30s
  • Q11
    MYTHICAL, IMMORTAL BIRD THAT LIVES FOR 500 YEARS, BURNS ITSELF TO DEATH, AND RISES FROM THE ASHES; ANYTHING THAT IS RESTORED AFTER SUFFERING GREAT DESTRUCTION
    phoenix
    30s
  • Q12
    puppet moved by strings
    marionette
    30s
  • Q13
    a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing
    thimble
    30s
  • Q14
    Medicated tablet or disk that dissolves in the mouth
    lozenge
    30s
  • Q15
    (v.) to ground or pound to a powder or dust; to destroy or overcome (as though by smashing into fragments)
    pulverize
    30s

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