FAHRENHEIT 451 VOCABULARY MAPS

By: Maya Young

NOMADIC Definition: - Leading the life of wanderer

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My Sentence: I live no where, for I will be forever nomadic.

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INSIDIOUS Definition:Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, with a harmful effect.

Evidence From the Novel:

My sentence: He walked toward the girl in the alley in a insidious way, carrying the pistol by his side.

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ODIOUSDefinition: Extremely unpleasant; repulsive

Evidence from the Novel:

My sentence: Randal looked at the garbage in a odious way, he so wished the garbage man who come to pick up his trash today.

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FEIGNINGDefinition:Pretending to be affected by a feeling , injury, or state of mind.

My Sentence:Amanda feigned like she was hurt just to make everyone feel guilty at laughing at her fall.

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CONTEMPTIBLEDefinition:Deserving to feel worthless or despicable

Evidence in the Novel:

My sentence:Madeline felt contemptible because her crush Arnold did not like her back.

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STOLIDDefinition:Calm and showing little emotion

Evidence in the Novel:With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head,

My Sentence:Professor Snape, a fictional character from the Harry Potter Series, had a stolid demeanor.

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WELTERDefinition:Confusion , tossing and tumbling

Evidence Found in Novel:

My sentence:Math was beginning to become welter for Kenly as she began to learn her functions.

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GOBBLEDEGOOK

Definition: language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.My Definition:The Scientist who talked and over looked th ebody on the ground was gobbledegook to my ears as I watched

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AESTHETICDefinition:AdjectiveConcerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.NounA set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement.

Evidence from Novel: Its perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. . . . It’s a mystery. . . . Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences . . . clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical.

My Sentence:Kevin aesthetic for Natalie was obvious to everyone in his class but Natalie.

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LIQUEFACTION

Defintion:the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid.

Evidence found in Novel:liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam." (117)

My Sentence:The bar of gold liquefied into a pull of molten gold.

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JUGGERNAUT

Definition:NounA huge, powerful, and overwhelming force or institution.

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My Sentence:The giant was a juggernaut to Jack and the village bellow.

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QUARRY

Defintion:NounA place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted.An animal pursued by a hunter, hound, predatory mammal, or bird of prey.A diamond-shaped pane of glass as used in lattice windows.VerbExtract (stone or other materials) from a quarry.

Evidence found in novel: '"...Mechanical Hound never fails. Never since its first tracking quarry has this incredible invention made a mistake.'"

My Sentence:The hunter and his hound were out in the woods, hunting for quarry.

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