Fahrenheit 451 Vocabulary

Question 1

Alight

Answer 1

To settle or come to rest.

Question 2

Bestia

Answer 2

Resembling an anmal, especially by being vicious or cruel.

Question 3

Cacophony

Answer 3

Loud confusing disagreeable sounds.

Question 4

Clarify

Answer 4

To make clear and comprehensible .

Question 5

Combustible

Answer 5

Capable of igniting and burning .

Question 6

Dictum

Answer 6

An authoritative declaration.

Question 7

Exploitation

Answer 7

An act that victimizes someone.

Question 8

Feign

Answer 8

Make believe with the intent to deceive.

Question 9

Figment

Answer 9

A contrived or fantastic idea.

Question 10

Flourish

Answer 10

A showy gesture.

Question 11

Heresy

Answer 11

A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion.

Question 12

Jargon

Answer 12

Technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject.

Question 13

Mausoleum

Answer 13

A large burial chamber, usually above ground.

Question 14

Melancholy

Answer 14

A tendency to be gloomy and depressed.

Question 15

Minstrel

Answer 15

A member of a band of entertainers, typically white actors with blackened faces using burnt cork, who performed in a type of stage entertainment prevalent in the US in the 19th and early 20th centuries, featuring songs, dances, and comic routines based on stereotyped depictions of African Americans.

Question 16

Pantomime

Answer 16

Act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements.

Question 17

Quiver

Answer 17

Shake with fast, tremulous movements.

Question 18

Radical

Answer 18

A person who has revolutionary ideas or opinions.

Question 19

Rationalize

Answer 19

Defend, explain, or make excuses for by reasoning.

Question 20

Ravenous

Answer 20

Extremely hungry.

Question 21

Rubby

Answer 21

Inclined to a healthy reddish color.

Question 22

Objectivity

Answer 22

Judgment based don observable phenomena.

Question 23

Odious

Answer 23

Extremely repulsive or unpleasant.

Question 24

Proclivity

Answer 24

A natural inclination.

Question 25

Quibble

Answer 25

Evade the truth of a point by raising irrelevant objections.

Question 26

Sedative

Answer 26

Tending to soothe or tranquilize.

Question 27

Sheer

Answer 27

Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front.

Question 28

Stolid

Answer 28

Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.

Question 29

Stratum

Answer 29

One of several parallel layers of material.

Question 30

Tactile

Answer 30

Of or relation to or proceeding from the sense of touch.

Question 31

Torrent

Answer 31

An overwhelming number or amount.