Fahrenheit 451 Vocabulary Quiz 3 (pages 47-82)

He felt her there, he saw her without opening his eyes, her hair burnt by chemicals to a _____ straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen.

• luminescent

• brittle

• parlor

• feigning

• smolders

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Because you're afraid, he thought. A child ______ illness, afraid to call because after a moment's discussion, the conversation would run.

• luminescent

• brittle

• parlor

• feigning

• smolders

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

You ever seen a burnt house? It _____ for days. Well, this fire'll last me the rest of my life. God! I've been trying to put it out, in my mind, all night.

• luminescent

• brittle

• parlor

• feigning

• smolders

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

It was like a faint drift of greenish _____ smoke, the motion of a single huge October leaf blowing across the lawn and away.

• luminescent

• brittle

• parlor

• feigning

• smolders

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

She went out of the room and did nothing to the ___________ and came back. "That's my favorite program."

• luminescent

• brittle

• parlor

• feigning

• smolders

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

This time, Mildred ran. The _____ voices stopped yelling in the parlor.

• yammering

• tabloids

• exploiters

• melancholy

• critics

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests. ________. Everything boils down to the gag.

• yammering

• tabloids

• exploiters

• melancholy

• critics

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the snobbish ____ said, were dishwater.

• yammering

• tabloids

• exploiters

• melancholy

• critics

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a ____________ hour.

• yammering

• tabloids

• exploiters

• melancholy

• critics

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Whirl man's mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, ________, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary thought.

• yammering

• tabloids

• exploiters

• melancholy

• critics

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4