Fahrenheit 451 pgs.21-26

Francisco R.
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  1. peculiar
    distinctive or special
    You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive.
    Guy Montag is telling this to Clarisse describing her and her actions, that are very distinct to how everyone else in this society acts.
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  2. capillary
    of or relating to hair
    Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently,gently. its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws.
    Guy's thoughts, describing the scene to extreme detail all the way to the small hairs in the nostril of the creature
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  3. olfactory
    of or relating to the sense of smell
    ... the men slid down the brass poles and set the ticking combination of the olfactory system of the Hound and let loose rats in the fire house areaway...
    Guy Montag describing what would happen on dull nights at the fire station, so every night, and they would use the "Hound" a machine that tracks things by their scent for entertainment.
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  4. proboscis
    a long flexible snout as of an elephant
    ... while a four inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.
    Guy is describing how the Hound immobilizes its target; by grabbing it and then injecting it with a drug making it vulnerable.
    Page 25
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  5. pawn
    the least powerful piece in chess
    The pawn was then tossed in the incinerator.
    It is not included in a sentence but it is Guy describing that the chicken, rat, or cat they would use as bait for the Hound was just a quick game a pawn and then it would start again.
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  6. scurry
    move about or proceed hurriedly
    But now nights he lay in his bunk, face turned to the wall, listening to the whoops of laughter below and the piano-string scurry of rat feet, the violin squeaking of mice, and the great shadowing, motioned silence of the Hound leaping out like a moth in the raw light, finding, holding,its victim, inserting the needle and going back to its kennel to die as if a switch had been turned.
    Guy Montag describing the sounds he hears at night and compares the scurry of rat's feet to a piano string sound.
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  7. rasping
    unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
    It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion.
    Guy is describing the sounds that the Hound is making while in front of him, the interior and ancient machinery making loud and unpleasant sounds.
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  8. multifaceted
    having many aspects
    Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, its multi-faceted eyes at peace.
    Guy Montag describes the heartless, scary, and empty eyes of the Hound, offering many different aspects to it. Right now the face that Montag is seeing is horrifying just looking at him as if he was a criminal but at the end returning to peace.
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  9. trajectory
    the path followed by an object moving through space
    It has a trajectory we decide on for it.
    The captain talking to Guy Montag
    He tells him that the machine has no feeling, he does not dislike or like anyone, he just does what he is told, where the trajectory is specified.
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  10. muzzle
    a leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout
    Montag touched the muzzle.
    This sentence just describes what Guy is doing and tells you that he touches the Hound's muzzle
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Created on Wed Apr 25 22:08:00 EDT 2012 (updated Thu Apr 26 01:51:47 EDT 2012)

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