Fahrenheit 451 Vocabulary pp. 21-46

Yes, I have. God knows why. You're peculiar, you're ______, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?

• exotic

• dandelions

• conjure

• psychiatrist

• aggravating

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

I guess it's the last of the _____ this year. I didn't think I'd find one on the lawn this late. Have you ever heard of rubbing it under your chin? Look.

• exotic

• dandelions

• conjure

• psychiatrist

• aggravaqting

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"I am very much in love!" He tried to ______ up a face to fit the words, but there was not a face. "I am!"

• exotic

• dandelions

• conjure

• psychiatrist

• aggravating

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

I've got to go see my ____ now. They make me go. I make up things to say. I don't know what he thinks of me.

• exotic

• dandelion

• conjure

• psychiatrist

• aggravating

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

If we had a fourth wall, why it'd be just like this room wasn't ours at all, but all kinds of ______ people's rooms. We could do without a few things.

• exotic

• dandelions

• conjure

• psychiatrist

• aggravating

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly ____ kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse.

• illuminated

• quivered

• incinerator

• whoops

• cogs

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

But now nights he lay in his bunk, face turned to the wall, listening to the ____ of laughter below and the piano-string scurry of rat feet.

• illuminated

• quivered

• incinerator

• whoops

• cogs

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of ____ that seemed rusty and ancient.

• illuminated

• quivered

• incinerator

• whoops

• cogs

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that ____ gently, gently.

• illuminated

• quivered

• incinerator

• whoops

• cogs

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine. The pawn was then tossed in the _____.

• illuminated

• quivered

• incinerator

• whoops

• cogs

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4