Fahrenheit 451 Vocab

Question 1

Cacophony

Answer 1

a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.

“You drowned in music and pure cacophony” (Bradbury 42).

Question 2

Heresy

Answer 2

opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted.

“A man named Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt alive at Oxford, for heresy, on October 16, 1555” (Bradbury 37).

Question 3

Objective

Answer 3

(of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

“He slapped her face with amazing objectivity and repeated the question” (Bradbury 33).

Question 4

Proclivity

Answer 4

a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition toward a particular thing.

“Were all fireman picked then for their looks as well as their proclivities?” (Bradbury 30)

Question 5

Distill

Answer 5

(of a liquid) having been purified by undergoing heating and condensation.

They managed to distill a small quantity of water.

Question 6

Odious

Answer 6

(extremely unpleasant; repulsive.

“The engine slammed to a stop. Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up the sidewalk, suddenly odious and fat in their plump fireproof slickers” (Bradbury 33).

Question 7

Quibble

Answer 7

a slight objection or criticism about a trivial matter.

“Let’s not quibble over individuals with memoriams. Forget them. Burn all, burn everything” (Bradbury 57).

Question 8

Stolid

Answer 8

(of a person) calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.

“With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame…” (Bradbury 1).

Question 9

Trajectory

Answer 9

the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces.

“It has a trajectory we decide on for it. It follows through. It targets itself, homes itself, and cuts off” (Bradbury 24).

Question 10

Melancholy

Answer 10

a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

“And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of the nameless stuff..” (Bradbury 13).

Question 11

Guy Montag

Answer 11

Protagonist a firefighter isn’t happy

Question 12

Mildred Montag

Answer 12

Guy Montag’s wife, tech obsessed, tried to overdose

Question 13

Clarisse McClellan

Answer 13

17 year old neighbor to Guy Montag outcast t most of society died by boys recklessly driving

Question 14

Captain Beatty

Answer 14

Firefighter captain is for burning of books

Question 15

The Mechanical Hound

Answer 15

The hound programmed to kill, represents a person under a government with full control.