Introduction to Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury Adapted from the Fahrenheit 451 Teacher’s Guide.
Fahrenheit 451 Vocab.
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FAHRENHEIT 451 VOCAB.
By: Cindy Emenalo
B2- Hobbs
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Definition: A puppet worked by strings.
MARIONETTE
Sentence: She was so sluggish that she acted like she was a marionette.
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EVIDENCE
“What incredible power of identification the girl had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began.”
MARIONETTE CONTINUED…
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Definition: A building used to house a tomb or tombs.
MAUSOLEUM
Sentence: The huge house, old and dusty, looked like a mausoleum.
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EVIDENCE
“It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set.”
MAUSOLEUM CONTINUED…
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Definition: An elongated sucking organ of an insect; a nose.
PROBOSCIS
Sentence: The proboscis of the large bear sensed the bear’s next meal.
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EVIDENCE
“Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half way across the areaway, gripped by gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.
PROBOSCIS CONTINUED…
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Definition: Habitual tendencies to do something usually discreditable; inclinations or predispositions.
PROCLIVITIES
Sentence: The young woman had been doing this for some time now, so her proclivities were predictable.
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EVIDENCE
Were all firemen picked then for their
looks as well as their proclivities?
PROCLIVITIES CONTINUED…
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Definition: the study of the flight characteristics of projectiles
BALLISTICS
Sentence: We learned about ballistics in class and used airplane models.
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BALLISTICS
It’s like a lesson in ballistics.
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Definition: Calm and showing little emotion.
STOLID
Sentence: Sarah always had a stolid face no matter what.
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STOLIDWith his symbolic helmet
numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes
all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he
flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening
sky red and yellow and black.
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Definition: one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock).
STRATUM
Sentence: She was very fragile after the chemo-therapy.
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FRAGILE
The woman on the bed was no more
than a hard stratum of marble they had
reached.
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Definition: a strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid
TORRENT
Sentence: A torrent that we caught fish from was right by the cabin.
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TORRENT
Don't let the torrent of
melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.