Fahrenheit 451 vocab quiz Flashcards
Subconscious
Just below the level of awareness
Mausoleum
A large burial chamber, usually above ground
Pulverized
Consisting of fine particles
Stratum
One of several parallel layers of materials
Hearth
An open recess in a wall where a fire can be built
Noncombustible
Not capable of igniting or burning
Feigning
Pretending with intention to deceive
Theremin
An electronic musical instrument
Welter
A confused multitude of things
Suffuse
Cause to spread or flush or flood throughout, over, and across
Contemptible
deserving of scorn or disrespect
Insidious
working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
Manifest
Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgement
Beatific
Resembling or befitting an angel or saint
Phosphorescent
emitting light without appreciable heat
Quaver
give off unsteady sounds
Perfunctorily
In a set manner without serious attention
Olfactory
of or relating to the sense of smell
Odious
extremely repulsive or unpleasant
Luminescent
emitting light not caused by heat
Proboscis
a long flexible snout as of an elephant
Abstract
Existing only in the mind
Centrifuge
an apparatus that separates particles from a suspension
morphine
an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium
