Fahrenheit 451 Vocab: Part II

Question 1

arsonists

Answer 1

people who set fires

Question 2

beatific

Answer 2

blissfull

Question 3

cadenced

Answer 3

rhythmic, measured

Question 4

centritude

Answer 4

certainly

Question 5

chaff

Answer 5

worthless things of parts

Question 6

contemptible

Answer 6

worthy of hate

Question 7

darkling

Answer 7

dark

Question 8

discourse

Answer 8

converstaion

Question 9

dispersing

Answer 9

scattering

Question 10

diverted

Answer 10

turned away

Question 11

enamled

Answer 11

painted

Question 12

insidious

Answer 12

treacherous

Question 13

linguists

Answer 13

those who study language

Question 14

manifested

Answer 14

asserted; made known

Question 15

moor

Answer 15

a boggy area

Question 16

parried

Answer 16

warded off a blow

Question 17

patronage

Answer 17

financial support

Question 18

perfunctorily

Answer 18

briefly

Question 19

phosphorescent

Answer 19

glowing

Question 20

praetorian

Answer 20

special bodyguards, resembling the Roman imperial bodyguards

Question 21

profusion

Answer 21

an abundance

Question 22

rebut

Answer 22

to argue against; to expose

Question 23

retaliation

Answer 23

revenge

Question 24

sieve

Answer 24

a strainer

Question 25

subaudible

Answer 25

below what can be heard

Question 26

subside

Answer 26

to slow, then stop

Question 27

suffused

Answer 27

filled; flushed

Question 28

teem

Answer 28

to abound

Question 29

televisors

Answer 29

walls with built-in TVs for entertaining and brainwashing people

Question 30

verbiage

Answer 30

excessively wordy

Question 31

welter

Answer 31

a chaotic mess; confusion