Fahrenheit 451 Vocab: Part III

Question 1

aesthetic

Answer 1

visually pleasing

Question 2

allotted

Answer 2

permitted; given

Question 3

convolutions

Answer 3

complicated curves and windings in the brain

Question 4

dilate

Answer 4

to widen

Question 5

gout

Answer 5

a gush

Question 6

illuminated

Answer 6

lit up

Question 7

incessantly

Answer 7

without stopping

Question 8

incite

Answer 8

to spur into action; to urge

Question 9

incriminate

Answer 9

to show evidence of involvement in a crime

Question 10

juggernaut

Answer 10

a massive force that crushes anything in its path

Question 11

liquefaction

Answer 11

the process of becoming a liquid

Question 12

litterateur

Answer 12

a literary person

Question 13

oblivion

Answer 13

condition of forgetting everything of being completely forgotten by others; death

Question 14

obscure

Answer 14

vague

Question 15

pendants

Answer 15

people who show off their knowledge

Question 16

plummeting

Answer 16

falling

Question 17

prattled

Answer 17

chattered meaninglessly

Question 18

probability

Answer 18

likelihood

Question 19

procaine

Answer 19

an anesthetic

Question 20

pyre

Answer 20

a heap of wood on which a body is burned

Question 21

ricocheted

Answer 21

rebounded

Question 22

rigidity

Answer 22

hardness, stifness

Question 23

scuttling

Answer 23

moving quickly

Question 24

scythe

Answer 24

a long curved blade for cutting grass; carried by a symbol of death, the “Grim Reaper”

Question 25

trajectory

Answer 25

a curving path

Question 26

vacuum

Answer 26

an emptiness

Question 27

valise

Answer 27

a suitcase