Fahrenheit 451 Vocab

Question 0

Radical

Answer 0

“Favoring drastic political, economic, or social reforms”

Question 1

Pulverized

Answer 1

To destroy, “to reduce to dust or powder”

Question 2

Haggle

Answer 2

To have a dispute over something, to “wrangle”

Question 3

Musk

Answer 3

A substance secreted by the glandular sac of a male deer, used in perfumes

Question 4

Odious

Answer 4

“Highly offensive, repugnant”

Question 5

Knoll

Answer 5

A small hill

Question 6

Prisms

Answer 6

Crystals where the two bases are congruent and faces that are congruent (the number of faces depends on the number of base edges)

Question 7

Grotesque

Answer 7

Strange, bizarre, deformed

Question 8

Cadence

Answer 8

“Rhythmic flow of a sequence of words or sounds”

Question 9

Capillary

Answer 9

“Hairlike”, a small vein

Question 10

Incinerator

Answer 10

A machine used to burn things to ashes

Question 11

Jabber

Answer 11

To talk “incoherently”, to chat lazily or offhandedly

Question 12

Luminosity

Answer 12

The quality of being luminous, glowing

Question 13

Avenged

Answer 13

To have taken vengeance on something or someone, to have gotten closure

Question 14

Resolve (noun)

Answer 14

Determination, “the trait of being resolute”

Question 15

Feigning

Answer 15

To fake, represent fictitiously

Question 16

Phonograph

Answer 16

“Sound-producing machine using records in the firm of cylinders or disks”

Question 17

Girdle

Answer 17

“A lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women”

Question 18

Dilate

Answer 18

To grow, expand, widen

Question 19

Condensed (verb)

Answer 19

To have made compact, concentrated