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Farenheit 451 (pages 129-134).

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  1. rash
    imprudently incurring risk
    Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and and don't want to look the coward to you.
    page 131; paragraph 6, lines 5-6 (Faber talking to Guy Montag)
  2. airborne
    moved or conveyed by or through air
    Even though everything's practically airborne these days and most of the tracks are abandoned, the rails are still there, rusting.
    page 132; paragraph 4, line 4 (Faber speaking to Montag).
  3. index
    list in an alphabetical listing of names and topics
    '-nose so sensitive the Mechanical Hound can remember and identify ten thousand odor indexes on ten thousand men without resetting!'
    index(es). page 133; paragraph 5, line 2 (news broadcast talking about the mechanical hound hunting down montag)
  4. grotesque
    distorted and unnatural in shape or size
    And there on the small screen was the burnt house, and the crowd and something with a sheet over it and out of the sky, fluttering, came the helicopter like a grotesque flower.
    page 134; paragraph 2, line 4 (narrator describing the landing of the helicopter)
  5. oblivion
    total forgetfulness
    and if he kept his eye peeled quickly he would see himself, an instant before oblivion, being punctured for the benefitof how many civilian parlor-sitters who had been wakened from sleep a few minutes ago by the frantic sirening of their living room walls to come watch the big game, the hunt, the one-man carnival.
    page 134; last paragraph, line 19
  6. dwindle
    become smaller or lose substance
    As the Hound seized him, in view of ten or twenty or thirty million people, mightn't he sum up his entire life in the last week in one single phrase or a word that would stay with them long after the Hound had turned, clenching him in its metal-plier jaws, and trotted of in darkness, while the camera remained stationery, watching the creature dwindle in the distance, a splendid fade-out!
    page 135; paragraph 1, line 8
  7. douse
    wet thoroughly
    Montag doused the exterior of the valise with whiskey.
    Dous(ed)- page 136; paragraph 4, line 1 ( Montag pouring some whiskey on the valise)
  8. procaine
    a white crystalline powder (trade name Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine
    The procaine needle flicked out and in, out and in.A single clear drop of the stuff of dreams fell from the needle as it vanished in the Hound's muzzle.
    page i37; paragraph 6, line 1.
  9. seance
    a meeting of spiritualists
    He shouted to give himself the necessary push away from this last house window, and the fascinating seance going on in there.
    page 138; paragraph 2, line 3 (describing Montag's escape into the river)
  10. ricochet
    spring back; spring away from an impact
    Ricochet(ed)- page 138; paragraph 2, line 11-12 (motions of the Hound).
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