Vocabulary

You will select 20 words from each section of the book to complete the assignment. For each word, you must include the following:

 * 1) The part of speech and the definition.
 * 2) The sentence in which the word is used from the book. Put the page number in parentheses after the sentence.
 * 3) Your own sentence, using the word correctly.

**Part I: "The Hearth and the Salamander"** 1. Abyss: noun. A very deep gap or hole, a chasm. pg. 20 (online copy) "He held his pants out into an abyss and let them fall into darkness." An abyss of darkness shadowed us as we walked into the cave. (ashley)

2. Ballistics: noun. the study of flight of bullets or other hurled objects. pg. 12 (online copy) "It's like a lesson in ballistics. It had a trajectory we decide for it." My brother took a class in ballistics so he could get his hunting liscence. (ashley)

3. Cacophony: noun. harsh, jarring sound; noise. pg.21 (online copy) " You drowned in music and pure cacophony. He came out of the room sweating and on the point of collapse." When the band is at our house practicing, the whole house is full of cacophony. (ashley)

4. Cartographer: noun. a map maker. pg. 27 (online copy) " The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere." When the new land was discovered, we hired a cartographer to create a map of the work site. (ashley)

5. Centrifuge: noun. a machine that seperates particles in a liquid by rapidly whirlinig the liquid around a central axis. pg. 49 "Patience, Montag. Let the war turn off the `families.' Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge." Using a centrifuge to spin out these components can speed up the process. (ashley)

6. Conjure: To summon or call up as if by magic, Verb. �He tried to conjure up a face to fit the words, but there was no face.� When trying to conjure up an excuse for my homework, it was such a long pause it was obvious I was lying. Pg. 10 of the online book (Zack)

7. Distilled: Purified or concentrated, Noun. �Montag moved back to his own house, left the window wide, checked Mildred, tucked the covers about her carefully, and then lay down with the moonlight on his cheekbones and on the frowning ridges in his brow, with the moonlight distilled in each eye To form a silver cataract there.� The image was distilled when the connection of the computer was interrupted. pg. 7 of online book (Zack)

8. Feigning: To pretend pretended Verb. �A child feigning illness, afraid to call because after a moment's discussion, the conversation would run so: "Yes, Captain, I feel better already. I'll be in at ten o'clock tonight.� It was obvious I was feigning the flu when I was caught drinking soda when my parents got home. pg. 24 of online book (Zack)

9. Hearth: Home or gathering place, Noun. �The Hearth and the Salamander� The hearth of many 19th century homes was the fire place because there were no heating systems so the family would gather there. pg. 1 (Zack)

10. Incinerator: A machine that breaks down or grinds trash, waste, metals, ECT. down. Noun. �The pawn was then tossed in the incinerator.� The scrap metal is no longer needed so it was tossed in the incinerator. pg. 11 of online book (Zack)

11. Luminescent: (adj.) emitting light now caused by heat. p. 48- "It was like a faint drift of greenish luminescent smoke, the motion of a single huge October leaf blowing across the lawn and away." The moon is luminescent, reflecting light off the sun. (sarah)

12. Mausoleum: A large statley tomb or building that housed it. p. 5 (online copy) "It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the foom had set. Pyramids are examples of mausoleums. (sarah)

13. Nomadic: (adj.) roaming about from place to place aimlessly, frequently, or without a fixed pattern of movement. p. 7(online copy) "Towns turn into motels, people in nomadic surges from place to place, following the moon tides, living tonight in the room where you slept this noon, and, and I the night before." My friend was telling me about the many towns and cities her family has lived in. She referred to her family as nomadic. (sarah)

14. Odious: (adj.) arousing or deserving hatred. p. 16 (online copy) "The engine slammed to a stop. Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up the sidewalk, suddenly odious and fat in the plump fireproof slickers." Many bullies are odious and seserve to be punished, but few are caught. (sarah)

15. Olfactory: (adj.) relating to or involving the organs or sense of smell. p.24-25- "Nights when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the Hound and let loose rats in the firehouse areaway, and sometimes chickens, and sometimes cats that would have to be drowned anyway, and there would be betting to see which of the cats or chickens or rats the Hound would seize first." When his olfactory organs were malfunctioning, Jerry couldn't smell the brownies his mom was baking. (sarah)

16. Phoenix 17. Pratfall

18. Proboscis: (noun) long mouthparts of something such as an invertebrate: the long or tubular mouthparts of some insects, worms, and spiders, used for feeding, sucking, and other purposes. pg.25 " three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the area-way, gripped by gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hounds to inject massive jolts of morphone or procaine." The bug used its proboscis to slurp up the soup. (yiyi)

19. Ravenous: (verb) famished: extremely hungry Page 19 (online)- "His hands were ravenous." The ravenous animal ate the cake. (yiyi)

20. Salamander 21. Stratum 22. Tallow: (noun) obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants. page 5 (online)- "He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over, and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out." Animal Fat is used in making tallow (yiyi)

23. Tamped

24. Titillation: (verb) To excite (another) pleasurably, superficially or erotically. Page 28 (online)- "For pleasure, for titillation?" When you poke Sarah (titilate), she spazzes. (yiyi)

25. Trajectory: (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space. Page 12 (online)- "Its like a lesson in ballistics. It has a trajectory we decide for it." The trajectory of the bullet missed the dog. (yiyi)

**Part II: "The Sieve and The Sand"**

1. __** Cadenced: **__ pg. 34 (online book) adjective. a rhythmic sequence or flow of sounds in a language. "His name was Faber, and when he finally lost his fear of Montag, he talked in a cadenced voice, looking at the sky and the trees and the green park, and when the hour had passed he said something to Montag and Montag sensed it was a rhymless poem." Hannah has a cadenced voice when she reads poetry. (ashley)

2. __** Certitude: **__ pg. 47 (online book) noun. freedom from doubt, especially in matters of faith or opinion; certainty. "Ah, let us be true to one another! For the world, which seems to lie before us seems likea land of new dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confusedalarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clashed by night." His certitude is not proof of the accuracy of his testimony. (ashleY)

3. __**Contemptible:**__ Despicable. Part of speech- adjective. “See how safe I play it, how contemptible I am?” Anna is so selfish and contemptible, I can’t stand to be around her. (Ashley)

4. __**Dentifrice:**__ a powder, paste, or liquid for cleaning the teeth. Part of speech- noun. “Denham’s Dentifrice, moth-voices, fireflies, the alarms and excursions, too much for a few short days, too much, indeed, for a lifetime.” The type of dentifrice I use is toothpaste. (Ashley)

5. __**Discourse:**__ verbal exchange of ideas. Part of speech- noun. “A kind of excellent dumb discourse, Willie” She delivered an entertaining discourse on the life of Sir Jenkins. (ashley)

6. Exhalation === 7. Filigree p. 48 (online): anything very delicate or fanciful; "It was good listening to the bettle hum, the sleepy mosquito buzz and delicate filigree murmur of the old man's voice at first scolding him and then consoling him as he emerged from the steaming subway toward the firehouse world." Ashton draws very filigree works of art. (yiyi) ===

11. Linguist p. 40 (online): a person who is skilled in several languages. "But aren't there professors like yourself, former writers, historians,...linguists? Mr. Castillo is a linguist. (yiyi)
=== 12. Manifest p. 49: to show plainly; " For these were the hands that had acted on their own, no part of him, here was where the conscience first manifested itself to snatch books, dart off with job and Ruth and Willie Shakespeare, and now, in the firehouse, these hands seemed gloved with blood." Sarah M's dog manifested a human voice and began talking. (yiyi) ===

=== 13. Moor p. 50: a track of open wasteland; "Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives." Ashley was stuck in a moor and faced several life/death situations, (yiyi) ===

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p.75- "The old man admitted to being a retired English Professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and **patronage**." ====== The small bookstore relied on its **patronage** to support itself. (sarah)

16. __**Perfunctorily:**__ (adv.) in a set manner without serious attention. p. 51 (online book) "He glanced perfunctorily at it, and shoved it in his pocket. She answers the phone perfunctorily, making it sound like she doesn't want to talk.

17. __**Phosphorescent:**__ (adj.) exhibiting phosphorescence (phosphorescence: an enduring luminescence without sensible heat) p. 51 (online book) "Beatty's pink, **phosphorescent** cheeks glimmered in the high darkness, and he was smiling furiously." (sarah) The **phosphorescent** smoke drifted out of the chimney. (sarah)

18. __**Quaver:**__ (v.) ﻿to utter sound in tremulous tones p. 46 (online book) " 'I'm going home,' **quavered** Mrs. Bowles." p. 46 (online book) "Mildred had already anticipated this in a **quavery** voice." Her voice **quavered** when she forgot her lines in the play. (sarah)

19. __**Rationalizing:**__ (v.) ﻿to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable. p. 30 (online book) ﻿"But my uncle says that was merely **rationalizing** it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life." His uncle gave him a false explanation as to why he was getting his head shaved, trying to **rationalize** the situation. (sarah)

20. __**Rebut:**__ (v.) To drive or beat back. p. 50 (online book) "...for I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to **rebut** you on every hand, on every point!" During court, her lawyer **rebutted** every accusation her neighbor's lawyer threw at them, and eventually won the case. (sarah)

21. Sieve- (Pg. 36 Online) Noun/verb, to sift through or filter, or a untensil of wire mesh used to filter foods, " Once as a child he had sat upon a yellow dune by the sea in the middle of the blue and hot summer day, trying to fill a sieve with sand" I was trying to find a lost quarter in the sandbox by using a sieve. (Zack)

22. Strewn-(Pg.37 Online) Transitive Verb, to scatter or spread apart, " Behind him, the door to a bedroom stood open, and in that room a litter of machinery and steel tools was strewn upon a desk-top" I entered my apartment to find my puppy sitting on my desk with my project papers strewn all over the room. (Zack)

23. Suffuse -(Pg. 35 Online) Transitive Verb, To spread through or over, " But somehow he had wanted to hear it from Faber himself. In the hall Mildred's face was suffused with excitement." As my brother opened his eyes to see a new car in front of him as a gift he was suffused with joy. (Zack)

24. Ventilator-(Pg. 34 Online) Noun, a device that circulates air; it expels foul air and replaces it with fresh air, " He was shivering and he wanted above all to shove the books up through the ventilator again" The venilator in the RV broke so now im baking in South Florida with no ventilation. (Zack)

25. Welter-(Pg. 42 Online) Noun, A heap or confused mass, " Faber opened the bedroom door and led Montag into a small chamber where stood a table upon which a number of metal tools lay among a welter of microscopic wirehairs, tiny coils, bobbins, and crystals." Upon entering the kindergarden classrom i was swarmed by a welter of 'Indians" with wet paint on their hands. (Zack)

**Part III: �Burning Bright�** __** 1. Aesthetic: **__ (p.115) Adjective; pleasing in appearance. “And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical.” There are practical as well as aesthetic reasons for planting trees. (Ashley)

__** 2. Avalanche: **__ (p. 74) (online book) Noun; A large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice “The last rolling thunder of the avalanche stoned﻿ down about his ears, not touching him.” He was trampled by an avalanche of snow. (Ashley)


 * __ 3. Contaminated: __** (p. 61) (online book) Adjective; soiled or stained “He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the phantom exhalations and odours of a running man.” Make sure the white paint is not contaminated by any other colors. (Ashley)


 * __ 4. Convolution: __** (p.72) (online book) Noun. One of the irregular ridges on the surface of the brain and especially of the cerebrum of higher animals. “Grandfather's been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint.” It is weird to touch the convolutions of someone else's brain. (Ashley)

__** 5. Desolation: **__ (p. 73) (online book) Noun. Grief or sadness. “And Faber was out; there in the deep valleys of the country somewhere the five a.m. bus was on its way from one desolation to another. Though the desolation had not yet arrived, was still in the air, it was certain as man could make it.” She sank into a state of desolation and dispair. (Ashley)

__** 6. Falter: **__ ﻿(p. 58) (online book) Verb. To hesitate in purpose or action. "Montag faltered, got a grip on the books, and forced himself not to freeze." When she was running through the trees, she tripped on a root, causing her to falter. (Ashley)

__7. Flailing__: p. 50 (online) verb- Wave or swing or cause to wave or swing wildly; "He felt beaten unmercifully on brow, eyes, nose, lips, chin, on shoulders, on upflailing arms" Ashley was flailing in the water, swimming away from the sharks! (yiyi)

__8. Guild:__ p. 65 (online) noun- A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade; " Now the guild of the asbestos-weaver must open shop very soon" Zack became the headmaster of the Famous and Rich Guild.

__9. Hovering:__ p.68 (online) verb- Remain poised in one place, typically with slight but undirected movement; "The camera, hovering in the belly of a helicopter, now swung down at an empty street." Sarah hovered stealthily over the factory. (yiyi)

__10. Illumine:__ I can't find it :(

__11. Instinctively__: p. 57 (online)-Adjective, as a matter of instinctively; "And then he realized, that he was indeed, running towards Faber's house instinctively" I instinctively dodged the balls. (yiyi)

p. 134- "Montag might rise, walk to the window, keep one eye on the TV screen,open the window, lean out, look back, and see himself dramatized, described, described, made over, standing there, **limned** in the bright small television screen from outside, a drama to be watched objectively, knowing that in other parlors he was a large as life, in full color, dimensionally perfect!" The bed in the drawing was **limned** with so much detail, I felt like I was there. (sarah)
 * 12. Limned: ** (adj.) outlined in clear, sharp detail

p. 119- "There was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove, a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible **liquefaction** and a boiling over of yellow foam." Salt is spread on roads to start **liquefaction**. (sarah)
 * 13. Liquefaction: ** (n.) the process of making or becoming liquid

p. 119- " 'Go ahead not, you second-hand **litterateur**, pull the trigger.' " The **litterateur** owned hundreds of books. (sarah)
 * 14. Litterateur: ** (n.) a literary person

**15. Metropolis:** (n.) a large, important city p. 159- "Before the bus had run another fifty yards on the highway, its destination would be meaningless, and its point of departure changed from **metropolis** to junkyard. As the city grew into a **metropolis**, the small country's economy improved because of the tourism.

**16. Oblivion**: (n.) the fact or condition of forgetting or having forgotten p. 134- "And if he kept his eye peeled quickly he would see himself, an instant before **oblivion**,being punctured for the benefit of how many civilian parlor-sitters who had been wakened from sleep a few minutes ago by the frantic sirening of their living room walls to come watch the big game, the hunt, the one-man carnival." p. 159- "Perhaps the great broadcasting stations with their beams of color and light and talk and chatter went first into **oblivion**. Instead of letting the memories of her grandmother drift into **oblivion**, she cherished the gifts from her. (sarah)

**17. Pedant:** (n.) a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge. p. 153- " 'The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves was that we were not important, we mustn't be **pedants**; we were not to feel superior or anyone else in the world.' " The **pedant**, Ms. Blake, was reluctatant to give up her books to the Fahrenheit 451 firefighters. (sarah)

p. 125- "Two dozen of them flurried, wavering, indecisive, three miles off, like butterflies puzzled by autumn, and then they were **plummeting** down to land, one by one, here, there, softly kneading the streets where, turned back to the beetles, they shrieked along the boulevards or, as suddenly, leapt back into the air, continuing their search. After spotting a fish in the water, the seagull dove down, **plummeting** down toward to ocean, and managed to catch it. (sarah)
 * 18. Plummeted: ** (v.) to fall perpendicularly

**19. Quarry-** Pg. 61 (Online), N. A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, and gravel. "Never since its first use in tracking quarry has this incredible invention made a mistake." After he Bill returned home from the quarry he had granite dust all over him. (Zack)

**20. Ricocheted-** Pg. 63 (Online) Adj. A ricochet ( RICK-uh-shay) is a rebound, bounce or skip off a surface, particularly in the case of a projectile "Behind him now twenty million silently baying Hounds ricocheted across parlours, three-cushion shooting from right wall to centre wall to left wall, gone, right wall, centre wall, left wall, gone !" The bullet ricocheted of the wall causing an accidental suicide. (Zack)

**21. Scapegoat-** Pg. 68 (Online) Noun. someone who is punished for the errors of others, " So they're sniffing for a scape-goat to end things with a bang" Bill threw molded cheese at Phil and said "TODD WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?" Making Todd the scapegoat. (Zack)

**22. Scythe-** 73 (Online) Noun. an edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground, " The bombardment was to all intents and purposes finished, once the jets had sighted their target, alerted their bombardiers at five thousand miles an hour; as quick as the whisper of a scythe the war was finished" Scythes are actually used for cutting grass but it's now thought of but nothing but a killing device.(Zack)

**23. Simmering-** Pg. 53 (Online) Adj. boiling: cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil, " He stepped into the bedroom and fired twice and the twin beds went up in a great simmering whisper" The water began simmering after about 3 mintues at 300 degress. (Zack)

**24. Simultaneously-** 68 (Online) Adj. Occuring at the same time, " Both reached him simultaneously." Synchronized swimming is when multiple dancers simultaneously swim in a certain routine. (Zack)

**25. Writhing (p.119)** Adj. writhe - to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling), " And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling, gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him." The prinsing was writhing from his painfully tight handcuffs. (Zack)