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
     

Fahrenheit 451 Vocab 1


1) word: refracted
    pronunciation: [ri-frakt-id]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: to reflect light   
    pg. 11
    sentence: "Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted their own light at you?"
    word used on the web: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Refracted
   

2) word: coattails
    pronunciation: [koht-teylz]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: the back of the skirt on a man's coat or jacket
    pg. 17
    sentence: "Everyone using everyone else's coattails."
    word used on the web: http://www.coattailsllc.com/
   

3) word: lozenge
    pronunciation: [loz-inj]
    word origin: Middle English<Middle French<Old French
    definition: a small, flavored tablet
    pg. 18
    sentence: " 'I don't know anything any more,' he said, and let a sleep lozenge dissolve on his tounge."
    word used on the web: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lozenge
   

4) word: proboscis
    pronunciation: [proh-bos-is, -kis]
    word origin: Latin<Greek
    definition: a nose   
    pg. 25
    sentence: "Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat or chicken caught half 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."
    word used on the web: http://thesaurus.com/browse/proboscis
    

5) word: procaine
    pronunciation: [proh-keyn]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: spinal anesthetic
    pg. 25
    sentence: "Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat or chicken caught half 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."
    word used on the web: http://www.drugs.com/mtm/procaine.html
   

6) word: proclivities
    pronunciation: [proh-kliv-i-tee-z]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: natural tendency
    pg. 33
    sentence: "Were all fireman picked then for their looks as well as their proclivities?"
    word used on the web:  https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/proclivity
   

7) word: cellophane
    pronunciation: [sel-uh-feyn]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: a transparent, paperlike product of viscose, impervious to moisture, germs, etc., used to wrap and package food, tobacco, etc.
    pg. 33
    sentence: "Captain Beatty there, rising in thunderheads of tobacco smoke, Beatty opening a fresh tobacco packet, crumpling the cellophane into a sound of fire."
    word used on the web: http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Cellophane.htm
   

8) word: rollick
    pronunciation: [rol-ik]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: to act in a carefree manner
    pg. 36
    sentence: "Next thing they were up in musty blackness swinging silver hatchets at doors that were, after all, unlocked, tumbling through like boys all rollick and shout."
    word used on the web: http://rollickclothing.com/
    

9) word: centrifuge
    pronunciation: [sen-truh-fyooj]
    word origin: French<Neo-Latin
    definition: an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force, separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
    pg. 45
    sentence: "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 waterfall that fell and fell into emptiness and emptiness and never....."
    word used on the web: http://www.centrifugesystems.com/
    

10) word: cacophony
      pronunciation: [kuh-kof-un-nee]
      word origin: Neo-Latin<Greek
      definition: frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand
      pg. 45
      sentence: "You drowned in music and pure cacophony."
      word used on the web: http://www.cacophony.org/
      
     

Vocab 7

1) word: edification
    pronunciation: [ed-uh-fi-key-shuh n]
    word origin: Middle English<Latin
    definition: moral improvement or guidance
    pg. 138
    sentence: "Still, everything he read he passed along to me, but with this difference: formerly, because he thought I'd like it; now, for my edification and instruction.
    word used on the web: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/edification
    

2) word: morphodite
    pronunciation: [mor-fo-dyte]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: shortened version of a hermaphrodite
    pg. 138
    sentence: "You damn morphodite, I'll kill you!"
    word used on the web: http://tkamchapter8.weebly.com/morphodite.html
    

3) word: tentative
    pronunciation: [ten-tuh-tiv]
    word origin: Medieval Latin<Latin
    definition: unsure
    pg. 139
    sentence: "Jem made a tentative sweep under the bed."
    word used on the web: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tentative
   

4) word: fortitude
    pronunciation: [fawr-ti-tood, -tyood]
    word origin: Middle English<Latin
    definition: mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty
    pg. 142
    sentence: "He bore with fortitude her Wait Til I Get You Home, Your Folks Are Out of Their Minds Worryin', was quite calm during That's All the Harris in You Coming Out, smiled at her Reckon You Can Stay One Night, and returned the hug at long last bestowed upon him."
    word used on the web: http://catholicism.about.com/od/beliefsteachings/p/Fortitude.htm
   

5) word: placid
    pronunciation: [plas-id]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: pleasantly calm
    pg. 144
    sentence: "It had been a placid week: I had minded Aunty; Jem had outgrown the treehouse, but helped Dill and me construct a new rope ladder for it; Dill had hit upon a foolproof plan to make Boo Radley come out at no cost to ourselves (place a trail of lemon drops from the back door to the front yard an he'd follow it, like an ant).
    word used on the web: http://thesaurus.com/browse/placid
   

6) word: begrudge
    pronunciation: [bih-gruhj]
    word origin: Middle English
    definition: to be reluctant to give
    pg. 145
    sentence: "Trial'll probably be Monday. You can keep him one night, can't you? I don't think anybody in Maycomb'll begrudge me a client, with times this hard."
    word used on the web: http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/begrudge
   

7) word: ominous
    pronunciation: [om-uh-nuh s]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: threatening
    pg. 146
    sentence: "There was a murmur among the group of men, made more ominous when Atticus moved back to the bottom front step and the men drew nearer to him."
    word used on the web: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ominous
   

8) word: linotype
    pronunciation: [lin-o-type]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts and entire line as a single slug of metal.
    pg. 148
    sentence: "It was said that he made up every edition of The Maycomb Tribune out of his own head and wrote it down on the linotype."
    word used on the web: http://www.linotype.com/ 
   
   
   
  
  










 9) word: eccleiastical
     pronunciation: [ih-klee-zee-as-ti-kuh l]
     word origin: Late Middle English
     definition: churchly
     pg. 150
     sentence: "Its fantasy was heightened by its red brick facade and the thick steel bars at its ecclesiastical windows."
     word used on the web: http://www.ecclesiastical.com/
           

10) word: acquiescence
      pronunciation: [ak-wee-es-uh ns]
      word origin: N/A
      definition: agreement without objection
      pg. 152
      sentence: "We were accustomed to prompt, if not always cheerful acquiescence to Atticus's instructions, but from the way he stood Jem was not thinking of budging."
      word used on the web: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/acquiescence
     

Vocab 6

1) word: assuaged
    pronunciation: [uh-sweyj, uh-sweyzh]
    word origin: Middle English<Old French<Vulgar Latin
    definition: to relieve
    page 3
    sentence: "When it healed,and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was        seldom self-conscious about his injury.
    word used on the web: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assuage
     

2) word: imprudent
    pronunciation: [im-prood-nt]
    word origin: Middle English<Latin
    definition: not cautious
    page 5
    sentence: "...from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presense of 3 witnesses, and insisted that the-son-of-a-bitch-had-it-coming-to-him was a good defense for anybody.
    word used on the web: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/imprudent
    

3) word: condescend
    pronunciation: [kon-duh-send]
    word origin: Middle English<Late Latin<Middle French
    definition: to assent
    page 15
    sentence: "Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one's parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was."
    word used on the web: http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/condescend
    

4) word: sentimentality
     pronunciation: [sen-tuh-men-tal-i-tee]
     word origin: N/A
     definition: a sentimental act
     page 19
     sentence: "In Calpurnia's teaching, there was no sentimentality: I seldom pleased her and she seldom rewarded me."
     word used on the web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimentality
     

5) word: entailment
    pronunciation: [en-teyl-muh nt]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: something implied by something else
    page 21
    sentence: "Entailment was only part of Mr. Cunningham's vexations."
    word used on the web: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/entailment
    

6) word: vexation
    pronunciation: [vek-sey-shuh n]
    word origin: Middle English<Latin
    definition: a cause of annoyance
    page 21
    sentence: "Entailment was only part of Mr. Cunningham's vexations."
    word used on the web: http://thesaurus.com/browse/vexation
    

7) word: dispensation
    pronuncation: [dis-puh n-sey-shuh n, -pen-]
    word origin: Middle English<Medieval Latin<Late Latin<Latin
    definition: distribution
    page 23
    sentence: "Jem's free dispensation of my pledge irked me, but precious noontime minutes were ticking away."
    word used on the web: http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bd/dispensations?lang=eng
    

8) word: diminutive
    pronunciation: [dih-min-yuh-tiv]
    word origin: Middle English<Medieval Latin
    definition: small
    page 27
    sentence: "He was among the most diminutive of men, but when Buris Ewell turned toward him, Little Chuck's right hand went to his pocket."
    word used on the web: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diminutive
    

9) word: monosyllabic
    pronunciation: [mon-uh-si-lab-ik]
    word origin: Medieval Latin<Late Latin<Greek
    definition: very brief
    page 28
    sentence: "My replies were monosyllabic and he did not press me."
    word used on the web: http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/monosyllabic.html
    

10) word: auspicious
      pronunciation: [aw-spish-uh s]
      word origin: Latin
      definition: prosperous
      page 32
      sentence: "The reminder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first."
      word used on the web: http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/auspicious
      
   
   

Vocab 5

1) word: analogy
    pronunciation: [uh-nal-uh-jee]
    word origin: Latin<Greek
    definition: comparison
    word used on the web: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analogy
     

2) word: annihilate
    pronunciation: [un-nahy-uh-leyt]
    word origin: Middle English<Late Latin
    definition: to wipe out
    word used on the definition: http://thesaurus.com/browse/annihilate
       

3) word: criterion
    pronunciation: [krahy-teer-ee-uh n]
    word origin: Greek
    definition: a standard
    word used on the web: http://www.criterion.com/
   
     
   


   









4) word: emanate
    pronunciation:[em-uh-neyt]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: to come out
    word used on the web: http://www.emanatepr.com/
    

5) word: holistic
    pronunciation: [hoh-lis-tik]
    word origin: N/A
    definition: concerned with the whole
    word used on the web: http://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/what-is-holistic-medicine
    

6) word: placebo
    pronunciation: [pluh-see-boh]
    word origin: Middle English<Latin
    definition: a fake medication
    word used on the web: http://www.placeboworld.co.uk/
    

7) word: proficient
    pronunciation: [pruh-fish-uh nt]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: highly competent
    word used on the web: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proficient
    

8) word: staunch
    pronunciation: [stawnch, stahnch]
    word origin: Late Middle English<Middle French
    definition: faithful
    word used on the web: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/staunch
    

9) word: subversive
    pronunciation: [suh b-vur-siv]
    word origin: Latin
    definition: intended to destroy
    word used on the web: http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/
    

10) word: vindicate
      pronunciation: [vin-di-keyt]
      word origin: Latin
      definition: to prove innocent
      word used on the web: http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/vindicate