451 Part 1 Vocab Quiz

In a school project, Samuel was tasked with reviewing a movie and was instructed to remove any parts deemed inappropriate. What is this practice called?

• Dictum

• Censorship

• Heresy

• Feigning

What is a machine that uses force to separate substances or parts of substances?

• Centrifuge

• Luminescent

• Waft

• Stolid

What term describes a statement or well-known remark that expresses an important idea or rule?

• Feigning

• Dictum

• Odious

• Peculiar

What does it mean to pretend to feel or be affected by something?

• Fervor

• Hysterical

• Feigning

• Obligated

What is a strong feeling of excitement and enthusiasm called?

• Melancholy

• Fervor

• Quibble

• Refracted

What is a belief or opinion that does not agree with the official belief or opinion of a particular religion?

• Heresy

• Proclivities

• Stolid

• Irritable

What term describes exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess?

• Hysterical

• Multifaceted

• Imperceptibly

• Waft

What does it mean when something is not perceptible by a sense or by the mind; impossible to see or notice?

• Odious

• Imperceptibly

• Peculiar

• Obligated

What term describes becoming angry or annoyed easily?

• Irritable

• Luminescent

• Feigning

• Quibble

During a science experiment, Grace observed a material that started to emit light. What does it mean for the material to emit light?

• Melancholy

• Luminescent

• Refracted

• Stolid