F451 Part Two Vocabulary Practice

Match the following:

• providing comfort in time of need

• consoling

• seed covering; strips of metal

• cadenced

• dropped in pitch or tone of voice

• beatific

• blissful; heavenly

• agony

• great pain or anguish

• chaff

Match the following:

• deserving to be treated with hatred

• diverted

• changed something's route or path

• discourse

• lack of courage

• dispersing

• serious speech or piece of writing

• conemptible

• scattering; disappearing

• cowardice

Match the following:

• delicate decorative design from metal

• dwindled

• domesticated furry animals

• ferrets

• reduced in number or amount

• dune

• given a glassy covering; coating

• enameled

• a hill of sand

• filigree

Match the following:

• a small biting fly

• gnat

• uncontrollable grief or laughter

• gibbering

• improved to a state of excellence

• hysterical

• talking or making sounds unintelligibly

• incense

• substance that gives a pleasant smell

• honed

Match the following:

• slowly and subtly harmful & destructive

• latrine

• average; adequate; but not very good

• mediocre

• knowing something instinctively

• invigorated

• a toilet

• inisidious

• filled with energy or vitality

• intuitively

Match the following:

• blocked or dodged the effect of a weapon

• probing

• a large, uncultivated stretch of land

• phosporescent

• conducting a thorough search

• moor

• continuing to emit light; glowing

• parried

• done as a matter of duty or custom

• perfunctorily

Match the following:

• to deny the truth of something

• strewn

• thrown about carelessly

• rebut

• spread over/through something w/ light

• teem

• an abundance; a large amount

• profusion

• to be full of; overflowing

• suffused