Fahrenheit 451 Vocab 2
1) word: fervor
pronunciation: [fur-ver]
word origin: Middle English<Anglo-French<Latin
definition: intense heat
pg. 37
sentence: "In all the rush and fervor, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it
blazed in his mind for the next minute as if
stamped there with fiery steel."
word used on the web: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fervor
2) word: ravenous
pronunciation: [rav-uh-nuh s]
word origin: Middle English<Old French
definition: famished
pg. 41
sentence: "His hands were ravenous. And his eyes were beginning to feel
hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything."
word used on the web: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ravenous
3) word: jargon
pronunciation: [jahr-guh n, -gon]
word origin: Middle English<Middle French<Old French
definition: meaningless talk
pg. 42
sentence: "She
talked to him for what seemed a long while and
she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nusery at a friend's house, a
two-year-old child building word paterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air."
word used on the web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon
4) word: pantomime
pronunciation: [pan-tuh-mahym]
word origin: Latin<Greek
definition: significant gesture without speech
pg. 46
sentence: "He could only pantomime, hoping
she would turn his way and see him.
They would not touch through the glass."
word used on the web: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15797050-pantomime
5) word: saccharine
pronunciation: [sak-er-in, -uh-reen, -uh-rahyn]
word origin: N/A
definition: sugary
pg. 81
sentence: "He's a
regular peppermint stick now, all
sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn't making veil references to certain commercial products that every worshiper
absolutely needs."
word used on the web: http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-foods/aspartame-saccharine/
6) word: filigree
pronunciation: [fil-i-gree]
word origin: N/A
definition: very delicate
pg. 103
sentence: "It was a good listening to the beetle hum, the sleepy mosquito buzz and
delicate filigree murmur of the old man's voice at first scolding him and then consoling him in the late hour of night as he emerged from the steaming subway toward the firehouse world."
word used on the web: http://filigreecharleston.com/
7) word: verbiage
pronunciation: [vur-bee-ij]
word origin: French<Middle French
definition: style of expressing something in words
pg. 107
sentence: "...'
The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said.' "
word used on the web: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/do-we-really-need-%E2%80%9Cverbiage%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cverbage%E2%80%9D/
8) word: litterateur
pronunciation: [lit-er-uh-tur]
word origin: French
definition: a literary person
pg. 119
sentence: " 'Go ahead now, you
second-hand litterateur, pull the trigger.' "
word used on the web:
http://thesaurus.com/browse/litterateur
9) word: liquefaction
pronunciation: [lik-wuh-fak-shuh n]
word origin: Late Middle English<Late Latin
definition: the process of making liquid
pg. 119
sentence: "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."
word used on the web:
http://www.ce.washington.edu/~liquefaction/html/what/what1.html
10) word: juggernaut
pronunciation: [juhg-er-nawt, -not]
word origin: Hindi<Sanskirt
definition: any large, overpowering, destructive force
pg. 140
sentence: "He saw a
great juggernaut of stars form in the sky and
threaten to roll over and crush him."
word used on the web:
http://www.dota2wiki.com/wiki/Juggernaut
