Vocab Fall List 8

   ruinous - disastrous or destructive
  
   quavered - shake or tremble in speaking

   certitude - absolute certainty or something is the case

   notch - a V-shaped cut

   perspired - give out sweat through the pores of the skin, result of 
                     heat

   manifested - clear or obvious to the eye or mind

   latrine - a toilet or outhouse

   uttered - make a sound with one's voice

   parried - ward off especially with a counter move

  conscious - aware of and responding to one's surrounding awake

  feigning - pretend to be affected by

  leisurely - acting or don at leisure; unhurried or relaxed

  conjure - make appear unexpectedly or seemingly from nowhere

  anesthetized - administer an anesthetic to a person or animal

  tyranny - cruel and oppressive government or rule

  dreary - dull, bleak, and lifeless

  grotesque - comically or repulsively ugly or distorted

reckoning - the action or process of calculating or estimating

Vocab Fall List 7

pratfall - a fall onto one's buttocks

bewilderedly - completely puzzled, confused

titillation - to simulate by touching lightly, tickle

Theremin- an early electronic musical instrument controlled
                           without physical contact

tabloids - a type of journalism

centrifuge - a machine with a rapidly rotary container that applies
                   centriful fuge to its contacts

haltingly - faltering or hesitating in speech

probing - physically explore or examine what it does in an 
                instrument

stagnant - having no current or flow and often an unpleasant
                 smell

cacophony - a harsh discordant mixture of sounds

Vocab Fall List 6

tatters - irregular torn pieces of cloth, paper, or other material

merely - just, only

vast - of very great extent or quantity

parlor - a room in a private home set for entertainment for guests

abruptly - sudden or unexpected

refracted - of water, air, or glass make a change of direction when in an angle

immense - extremely large or great

imperceptibly - impossible to perceive

ventilator - blows air into your airways

olfactory - relating to the sense of smell

Fahrenheit 451 pg.3-20

This book is kind of odd because the way people live in the book is way different from our society today. Its against the law to read books and firemen start fires instead of putting out fires. People are more private about there stuff. its amazing how the author wrote the book long ago but was able to predict the future of our society so well.