Fahrenheit 451 pages 105-110

Paul H.
Some vocabulary words from Fahrenheit 451. it is really only up to 107, because thats where I found enough words.
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  1. manifest
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
    ...here was where the conscience first manifested itself to snatch books...
    page 105
    paragraph 2
    line 11
    The narrator is is describing Montag's guilt while he is in the room with the other firemen.
  2. reckoning
    the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
    Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning, we've cried.
    page 105
    paragraph 4
    line 4
    Beatty is talking how they've all ( the firemen and himself) have strayed at times and read a book.
  3. gilded
    made from or covered with gold
    ...This age thinks better of a gilded fool than of a threadbare saint...
    page 107
    paragraph 1
    line 1
    Beatty is telling Montag about the dream he had. He is telling how Montag and himself were arguing with quotes from books.
  4. threadbare
    thin and tattered with age
    ...This age thinks better of a gilded fool than of a threadbare saint...
    page 107
    paragraph 1
    line 1
    Beatty is telling Montag about the dream he had. He is telling how Montag and himself were arguing with quotes from books.
  5. serenity
    the absence of mental stress or anxiety
    ...and I summed my side up with rare serenity within...
    page 107
    paragraph 1
    line 6
    Beatty is telling Montag about the dream he had. He is telling how Montag and himself were arguing with quotes from books.
  6. folly
    the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
    ...The folly of mistaking a metaphor for proof...
    page 107
    paragraph 1
    line 9
    Beatty is telling Montag about the dream he had. He is telling how Montag and himself were arguing with quotes from books.
  7. oracle
    a shrine where a prophet is consulted
    ...and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us...
    page 107
    paragraph 1
    line 11
    Beatty is telling Montag about the dream he had. He is telling how Montag and himself were arguing with quotes from books.
  8. rebut
    overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
    ...doing a terrible thing in using the very books that you clung to, to rebut you on every hand...
    page 107
    paragraph 3
    line 3
    Beatty is telling Montag about how hes using books to rebut him.
  9. moor
    come into or dock at a wharf
    ...and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives...
    page 107
    paragraph 3
    line 6
    Beatty is telling Montag that books are traitors, that they turn on people.
  10. welter
    a confused multitude of things
    ...and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives...
    Page 107
    paragraph 3
    line 7
    Beatty is telling Montag that books are traitors, that they turn on people.
Created on Tue Apr 24 20:28:41 EDT 2012 (updated Tue Apr 24 20:29:55 EDT 2012)

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