Vocab 1-15 Fahrenheit

Words 1

100

He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent airpropelled trian slid soundlessly down its lubricated__________ in the earth. 

Flue

200

With his _________ helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flam with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter. 

symbolic

300

He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a(n) ________ man, burnt-corked, in the mirror. 

minstrel

400

With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its___________ kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head. 

venomous

500

Or was the atmosphere compressed __________ by someone standing very quietly there, waiting?

merely

Words 2

100

Her face, turned to him now, was __________milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it.

fragile

200

One time, when he was a child, in a power-failure, his mother had found and lit a last candle and there had been a brief hour of rediscovery, of such________ that space lost its vast dimensions and drew comfortably....

illumination

300

But he knew his mouth had only moved to say hello, and then when she seemed hypnotized by the salamander on his arm and the ____________-disc on his chest, he spoke again.  

phoenix

400

But the strangely comfortable and rare and gently ____________ light of the candle.

flattering

500

Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with_______________ curiosity.

tireless

Words 3

100

"Have you ever watched the jet cars racing on the _____________ down that way?

boulevards

200

She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all ________ and knowing what it has to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses but moving also toward a new sun.

certainty

300

"What?" asked Montag of that other self, the ________________ idiot that ran babbling at times, quite independent of will, habit, and conscience. 

subconscious

400

He suddenly couldn't remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite ___________. 

irritable

500

They walked the rest of the way in silence, hers thoughtful, his a kind of clenching and uncomfortable silence in which he shot her _________ glances. When they reached her house all its lights were blazing.

accusing