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Fahrenheit 451: Vocab

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

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Class
Date
1.

The examination of books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral or political grounds.

a)

censorship

b)

pulverized

c)

subconscious

d)

ravenous

2.

Deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable; highly offensive, repugnant, disgusting.

a)

cacophony

b)

subside

c)

fugitive

d)

odious

3.

behavior that is the same as the behavior of most other people in a society, group, etc.

a)

stolid

b)

conformity

c)

fervor

d)

cacophony

4.

the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech

a)

cacophony

b)

pyre

c)

pantomime

d)

tyranny

5.

harsh clashing of sound; dissonance.

a)

pulverized

b)

fervor

c)

ravenous

d)

cacophony

6.

intense heat.

a)

fervor

b)

subside

c)

insidious

d)

hearth

7.

the floor of a fireplace, usually of stone, brick, etc., often extending a short distance into a room

a)

stolid

b)

hearth

c)

subside

d)

pyre

8.

a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material; such a pile for burning a body.

a)

tyranny

b)

cacophony

c)

stolid

d)

pyre

9.

arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; abuse of authority.

a)

pantomime

b)

tyranny

c)

stolid

d)

ravenous

10.

to shake tremulously; to quiver or tremble.

a)

quavered

b)

cadenced

c)

pantomime

d)

fervor

11.

a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway.

a)

fugitive

b)

cadenced

c)

cacophony

d)

pulverized

12.

to become quiet, less active, or less violent; abate

a)

fugitive

b)

subside

c)

pantomime

d)

odious

13.

not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.

a)

pantomime

b)

ravenous

c)

pulverized

d)

stolid

14.

extremely hungry; famished; voracious; extremely rapacious.

a)

pulverized

b)

ravenous

c)

fervor

d)

subconscious

15.

existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness.

a)

insidious

b)

cadenced

c)

subconscious

d)

pulverized

16.

operating in a seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect; intended to entrap; deceitful.

a)

cacophony

b)

insidious

c)

fervor

d)

odious

17.

rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words

a)

pulverized

b)

tyranny

c)

pyre

d)

cadenced

18.

to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.

a)

cadenced

b)

fugitive

c)

pulverized

d)

fervor