Fahrenheit 451 (pgs. 81-86)

Carlee D.
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  1. diverted
    pleasantly occupied
    "Montag had onlya glimpse, before Faber, seeing Montag's attention diverted, turned quickly and shut the bedroom door..." -Narrator (Montag had just arrived to Faber's house.)
    pg. 81
    paragraph 2
    line 6
  2. veiled
    muted or unclear
    "...when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products..." -Faber (Talking about how people use God's son in their time.)
    pg. 81
    paragraph 8
    line 9
  3. receptacle
    a container that is used to put or keep things in
    "Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we might forget." -Faber (Telling Montag what used to be in books.)
    pg. 82
    paragraph 5
    line 11
  4. subside
    wear off or die down
    "I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others gruntin or yelling..." -Faber (Telling Montag about how he (Faber) was such a coward.)
    pg. 82
    paragraph 1
    line 7
  5. intuitively
    in an intuitive manner
    "You are intuitively right, that's what counts." -Faber (Talking to Montag.)
    pg. 83
    paragraph 1
    line 6
  6. profusion
    the property of being extremely abundant
    "You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion." -Faber (Explaing to Montag why books are important.)
    pg. 83
    paragraph 2
    line 6
  7. dentifrice
    a substance for cleaning the teeth
    "Denham's Dentrifice; they toil not neither do they spin." -Montag (Quoting something from a book.)
    pg. 84
    paragraph 10
    line 1
  8. treason
    an act of deliberate betrayal
    "...destroyed as hotbeds of treason" -Faber (Discussing the plan with Montag.)
    pg. 86
    paragraph 8
    line 4
  9. arsonist
    a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
    "...seeds of suspicion would be swon among these arsonists..." -Faber (Discussing the plan with Montag.)
    pg. 85
    paragraph 15
    line 8
  10. praetorian
    of or relating to a Roman praetor
    "They're Ceaser's praetorian gaurd..." -Faber (Telling Montag about books.)
    pg. 86
    paragraph 3
    line 7
Created on Tue Apr 24 23:10:12 EDT 2012 (updated Wed Apr 25 21:08:03 EDT 2012)

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