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WorksheetsF451 Vocabulary Review Part II & III
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
"And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn..."
In this sentence, mannikin is used as what part of speech?
Verb
Noun
Adjective
Pronoun
"Montag did not look back at his wife as he went trembling along the hall to the kitchen where he stood a long time watching the rain hit the windows before he came back down the hall in the grey light, waiting for the tremble to __________."
The word the best completes this sentence is...
Ricochet
Intution
Quarry
Subside
"Plant the books, turn in an alarm, and see the firemen's houses burn... It's an insidious plan, if I do say so myself"
In the sentence, insidious most nearly means....
intending to entrap or mislead
abundance; great quantity or amount
to lessen; to decrease
someone who can look into the future
Which of the following words are synonyms for subside?
Add, increase
Lessen, decrease
Brighten, illuminate
Expand, enlarge
"By oversimplifying everything, people do not see the profusion and complexity of life."
In this sentence, profusion most nearly means?
A large, destructive object that crushes everything in it's path
Brightness
Abundance; great quantity or amount
To lessen, to decrease
The word juggernaut means...
Something hunted
Abundance; greate quanity or amount
To bounce off something from the force of impact
A large, destructive object that crushes everything in it's path
Which of the following words are antonyms for intuitively?
Subconsciously; instinctively
Involuntary, visceral
Consciously, mindfully
Inborn, inherent
Beatty tells Montag about a dream he has in which Montag and himself are arguing using quotes from books. This exchange shows that Beatty knows Montag is wavering about what is right and wrong. Which vocabulary word describes how Beatty knows this about Montag.
Verbiage
Intuition
Oracle
Profusion
"Mechanical Hound never fails. Never since its first use in tracking ___________ has this incredible invention made a mistake."
The word that best completes this sentence is...
Verbiage
Quarry
Profusion
Oracle
"Out of a helicopter glided something that was not machine, not animal, not dead, not alive, glowing with a pale green luminosity."
In this sentence, luminosity is used as what part of speech?
Noun
Verb
Adjective
Pronoun
Quarry:
an open excavation usually for obtaining building stone, slate, or limestone
to dig or take from
one that is sought or pursued; prey
Using the dictionary entry above, which definition of venomous best matches the way it is used in the sentence? "Mechanical Hound never fails. Never since its first tracking quarry has this incredible invention made a mistake."
Pink
Blue
Green
None of the above
"Behind him now twenty million silently baying hounds, ricocheted across parlors." In this sentence, ricocheted most nearly means...
Something hunted
A large, busy city
A dummy used to display clothes
To bounce off something from the force of impact
In F451, Bradbury used the image of a centrifuge to describe Montag's world. Given that centrifuge is an apparatus that rotates at high speed, Bradbury compares a centrifuge to what household appliance?
Big screen TV
Microwave oven
Automatic washing machine
Garbage disposal
"The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof a torrent of ________________ for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said." From this excerpt, which word best completes the sentence...
Metropolis
Profusion
Quarry
Verbiage
"The organization is flexible, very loose, and fragmentary." In this sentence, the word fragmentary most nearly means...
To lessen; to decrease
Intending to entrap or mislead
Broken; incomplete
A person who makes an excessive display of learning
Which word is a synonym for pedant?
amateur
odd
basic
intellectual
"The aircraft levels the city just as a ___________ could level a field of wheat." Which word best completes the sentence....
Metropolis
Scythe
Fragmentary
Incriminatory
"Because Granger's people memorize books, they carry nothing to incriminate them." In this sentence, incriminate most nearly means...
A person who makes an excessive display of learning
To name others as involved in a crime
Abundance; great quantity or amount
Known by intuition or insight
Which of the following words are synonyms for the word profusion?
Abundance, wealth
Poverty, strain
Prey, victim
Bounce, rebound
Which of the following are synonyms for ricochet?
Prey, victim
Wordiness, verbosity
Brightness, Radiance
Bounce, rebound
