Fahrenheit 451 Vocab pt. 2 Quiz

Desolution

• 
  eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly

• a state of complete emptiness or destruction

• 
  Pay attention to; ignored

• Cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another

Which word means "
eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly"?

• Dilate

• Equate

• Devour

• Falter

Which word means "make or become wider, larger, or more open"?

• Dilate

• Divert

• Dwindle

• Desolution

Disintegrate

• Cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another

• diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength

• Break up into small parts as the result of impact or decay

• a short journey or trip, especially one taken as a leisure activity

Which word means "
Distribute or spread over a wide area"?

• Disperse

• Earnestly

• Falter

• Excursion

Disregard

• Cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another

• 
  Not pay attention to; ignored

• 
  A bold or extravagent gesture or action, made especially to attract attention

• Ornamental work of fine (typically gold or silver) wire formed with delicate tracery

Divert

• lose strength or momentum
  

• 
  A bold or extravagent gesture or action, made especially to attract attention

• a state of complete emptiness or destruction

• 
  Cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another

Dwindle

• diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength

• 
  consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another

• a short journey or trip, especially one taken as a leisure activity

• a state of complete emptiness or destruction

Which word means "With sincere and intense conviction"?

• Earnestly

• Falter

• Excursion

• Disintegrate

What word means "consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another"?

• Dwindle

• Equate

• Filigree

• Disregard