Fahrenheit 451 Part II Vocabulary

Mrs. Lee (United States of America)
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  1. dentifrice
    a substance for cleaning the teeth
    He tried to piece it all together, to go back to the normal pattern of life a few short days ago before the sieve and the sand, Denham's Dentifrice, moth-voices, fireflies, the alarms and excursions, too much for a few short days, too much, indeed, for a lifetime.
  2. caesarian section
    the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way)
    I've had two children by Caesarian section.
  3. trench mouth
    an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane
    And I said, patting your hand, 'What, do I give you trench mouth?'
  4. salamander
    terrestrial amphibian that resembles a lizard
    The salamander devours his tail!
  5. cadenced
    marked by a rhythmical cadence
    His name was Faber, and when he finally lost his fear of Montag, he talked in a cadenced voice, looking at the sky and the trees and the green park, and when an hour had passed he said something to Montag and Montag sensed it was a rhymeless poem.
  6. Pirandello
    Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936)
    "Oh, there are many actors alone who haven't acted Pirandello or Shaw or Shakespeare for years because their plays are too aware of the world.
  7. suffuse
    cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
    In the hall Mildred's face was suffused with excitement.
  8. Book of Job
    a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply
    "The Book of Job." The moon rose in the sky as Montag walked, his lips moving just a trifle.
  9. Swahili
    the most widely spoken Bantu languages
    Swahili, Indian, English Lit., I speak them all.
  10. latrine
    a public toilet in a military area
    Twice in half an hour, Montag had to rise from the game and go to the latrine to wash his hands
  11. praetorian
    of or relating to a Roman praetor
    They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.
  12. welter
    a confused multitude of things
    Faber opened the bedroom door and led Montag into a small chamber where stood a table upon which a number of metal tools lay among a welter of microscopic wire-hairs, tiny coils, bobbins, and crystals.
  13. perfunctorily
    in a set manner without serious attention
    He glanced perfunctorily at it, and shoved it in his pocket.
  14. verbiage
    overabundance of words
    And you shrieked, 'Knowledge is power!' and 'A dwarf on a giant's shoulders of the furthest of the two!' and I summed my side up with rare serenity in, 'The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said.
  15. filigree
    delicate and intricate ornamentation
    It was good listening to the beetle hum, the sleepy mosquito buzz and delicate filigree murmur of the old man's voice at first scolding him and then consoling him in the late hour of night as he emerged from the steaming subway toward the firehouse world.
  16. beatific
    resembling or befitting an angel or saint
    And you got in and we drove back to the firehouse in beatific silence, all -dwindled away to peace."
  17. gibber
    speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
    It was a plea, a cry so terrible that Montag found himself on his feet, the shocked inhabitants of the loud car staring, moving back from this man with the insane, gorged face, the gibbering, dry mouth, the flapping book in his fist.
  18. darkling
    uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure
    Montag finished it out: "'Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.'"
  19. Aeschylus
    Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama
    That was the year I came to class at the start of the new semester and found only one student to sign up for Drama from Aeschylus to O'Neill.
  20. bobbin
    a spool around which thread or other material can be wound
    Faber opened the bedroom door and led Montag into a small chamber where stood a table upon which a number of metal tools lay among a welter of microscopic wire-hairs, tiny coils, bobbins, and crystals.
  21. certitude
    complete assurance or confidence
    Montag finished it out: "'Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.'"
  22. harlequin
    a clown or buffoon
    A few bombs and the 'families' in the walls of all the houses, like harlequin rats, will shut up!
  23. Vesuvius
    a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast
    He was eating a light supper at nine in the evening when the front door cried out in the hall and Mildred ran from the parlor like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius.
  24. titter
    laugh nervously
    Mrs. Bowles tittered.
  25. concussion
    injury to the brain caused by a blow
    "Hey!" They rounded a corner in thunder and siren, with concussion of tires, with scream of rubber, with a shift of kerosene bulk in the glittery brass tank, like the food in the stomach of a giant; with Montag's fingers jolting off the silver rail, swinging into cold space, with the wind tearing his hair back from his head, with the wind whistling in his teeth, and him all the while thinking of the women, the chaff women in his parlor tonight, with the kernels blown out from under ...
  26. monologue
    a dramatic speech by a single actor
    An hour of monologue, a poem, a comment, and then without even acknowledging the fact that Montag was a fireman, Faber with a certain trembling, wrote his address on a slip of paper.
  27. mediocre
    moderate to inferior in quality
    The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.
  28. ferret
    a small domesticated mammal with a flexible, elongated body
    His fingers were like ferrets that had done some evil and now never rested, always stirred and picked and hid in pockets, moving from under Beatty's alcohol-flame stare.
  29. insidious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
    It's an insidious plan, if I do say so myself
  30. chaff
    material consisting of seed coverings and pieces of stem
    "Hey!" They rounded a corner in thunder and siren, with concussion of tires, with scream of rubber, with a shift of kerosene bulk in the glittery brass tank, like the food in the stomach of a giant; with Montag's fingers jolting off the silver rail, swinging into cold space, with the wind tearing his hair back from his head, with the wind whistling in his teeth, and him all the while thinking of the women, the chaff women in his parlor tonight, with the kernels blown out from under ...
  31. porcelain
    ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic
    The faces of those enameled creatures meant nothing to him, though he talked to them and stood in that church for a long time, trying to be of that religion, trying to know what that religion was, trying to get enough of the raw incense and special dust of the place into his lungs and thus into his blood to feel touched and concerned by the meaning of the colorful men and women with the porcelain eyes and the blood-ruby lips.
  32. incense
    make furious
    The faces of those enameled creatures meant nothing to him, though he talked to them and stood in that church for a long time, trying to be of that religion, trying to know what that religion was, trying to get enough of the raw incense and special dust of the place into his lungs and thus into his blood to feel touched and concerned by the meaning of the colorful men and women with the porcelain eyes and the blood-ruby lips.
  33. squat
    sit on one's heels
    The parlor was dead and Mildred kept peering in at it with a blank expression as Montag paced the floor and came back and squatted down and read a page as many as ten times, aloud.
  34. torrent
    an overwhelming number or amount
    And you shrieked, 'Knowledge is power!' and 'A dwarf on a giant's shoulders of the furthest of the two!' and I summed my side up with rare serenity in, 'The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said.'"
  35. Plato
    ancient Athenian philosopher
    "How many copies of Shakespeare and Plato?"
Created on Mon Sep 02 01:27:59 EDT 2013

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