Fahrenheit 451 Vocabulary Words

Fahrenheit 451 Vocabulary Words

Kyra Bassett

Definition A layer of rock Evidence “ The woman on the bed was no more than a hard stratum of marble they had reached.”

My Sentence The archaeologist had to go through the rough stratum, thick and hard to find the fossils.

Image

Stratum

Odious Definition Extremely unpleasant; repulsive

Evidence“ Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up the sidewalk, suddenly odious and fat in their plump fireproof slickers.”

My sentence Jack, Daniel’s brother, was odious whenhe saw his mom go through the principal office.

Image

StagnantDefinition Of water of air: motionless and often having an unpleasant smell

Evidence He tried to count how many times she swallowed and he thought of the visit from the two zinc-oxide-faced men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths and the electronic-eyed snake winding down into the layer upon layer of night and stone and stagnant spring water, and he wanted to call out to her,..…….”

My Sentence I felt sick after I went past the dirty stagnant, smelly and disgusting earlier in the day.

Image

Centrifuge

Definition A machine with a rapidly rotating container used chiefly to separate liquids from solids

Evidence “ When it was all over he felt like a man who had been thrown from a cliff, whirled in a centrifuge, and spat out over a ness and…..”

My SentenceThe scientist, curious and amazed was using their centrifuge to separate the blood types.

Image

BestialDefinition Savagely cruel and wicked

EvidenceAny man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide? rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

My SentenceThe wicked witch, evil and misunderstood was very bestial when she had kidnapped the little girl.

Image

Cacophony DefinitionA harsh, discordant mixture of sounds

Evidence“You drowned in music and pure cacophony.”

My SentenceThe friends, James, Sydney, and Anna were in a cacophony when they were at the heavy metal concert.

Image

Marionette DefinitionA puppet worked from above by strings attached to its limbs.

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…..”

My SentenceThe marionette, Skully made the whole crowd laugh within five minutes of starting the show.

Image

Dictum Definition A formal pronouncement from an authoritative source.

Evidence“There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no!”

My SentenceThe mayor, Kasim Reed was trying to tell the residents as much dictum as he could.

Image

Convolutions Definitioncoils and twists

Evidence ‘‘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.”

My SentenceMany people have convolutions in their brain.

Image

Pyre definition a heap of combustible material, especially one used for the ritual

Evidence"There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up.

My sentencePeople used pyre when it was time to do a sacrifice.

Image

Scythe Definitiona tool used for cutting crops, such as grass or corn, with a long curvedblade at the end of a long pole

EvidenceThe 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.

My sentenceThe farmer was using his scythe to cut down crops.

Image

Aesthetic Definition having a pleasing appearance

Evidence Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical."

My sentenceSarah has an aesthetic face when she has makeup on.

Image

Bombardiers Definitiona member of a bomber crew responsible for sighting and releasing

EvidenceThe 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.

My sentenceA bombardier was in Iraq last night.

image

JuggernautDefinitionan overwhelming, advancing force that crushes everything in its path

EvidenceHe saw a great juggernaut of stars form in the sky and threaten to roll over and crush him.

My sentenceThe Hulk, a big juggernaut, was going through the city destroying everything in its path.

image