Fahrenheit 451 pages 51-56

Marquis M.
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  1. abstractedly
    in an absentminded or preoccupied manner
    "...began to strike the chemical match abstractedly, blow out, strike, blow out, strike, speak a few words, blow out."
    paragraph 5
    line 28
    page 53
  2. centrifuge
    an apparatus that separates particles from a suspension
    "...pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centerfuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting though!"
    paragraph 2
    line 21
    page 55
  3. displace
    take the position of or have precedence over
    "The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour and thus a melancholy hour."
    paragraph 1
    line 5
    page 56
  4. philosophical
    meeting trouble with level-headed detachment
    "The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour and thus a melancholy hour."
    paragraph 2
    line 7
    page 56
  5. melancholy
    a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
    "The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour and thus a melancholy hour."
    paragraph 1
    line 7
    page 56
  6. pratfall
    an embarrassing mistake
    "Life becomes one big pratfall, Montag; evertyhing bang boff and wow!"
    paragraph 2
    line 10
    page 56
  7. Sauterne
    semisweet golden-colored table or dessert wine from around Bordeaux in France; similar wine from California
    "...furnish the rooms with glas walls and pretty colors running up and down the walls like confetti or blood or sherry or sauterne."
    paragraph 4
    line 23
    page 56
  8. smolder
    burn slowly and without a flame
    "It smolders for days."
    paragraph 6
    line 21
    page 56
  9. kerosene
    a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel
    "Last night I thought of all the kerosene I've used in the past 10 years."
    paragraph 8
    line 34
    page 51
  10. ruddy
    of the color between orange and purple in the color spectrum
    "...peaceful look on his ruddy face."
    paragraph 3
    line 15
    page 53
Created on Thu Apr 26 03:42:37 EDT 2012

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