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Fahrenheit 451 - Part 2- The Sieve and the Sand Vocabulary

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What term means scorn, extreme dislike or disdain?

a)

contempt

b)

romantic

c)

subaudible

d)

ruinous

2.

What term means relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art

a)

cadence

b)

aesthetic

c)

romantic

d)

beatific

3.

What term means acting routinely with little interest or care?

a)

rebut

b)

parried

c)

contempt

d)

perfunctory

4.

What term means rhythmic rise and fall

a)

subaudible

b)

retaliate

c)

cadence

d)

ruinous

5.

What term means being spread through with or as with color or light or liquid

a)

welter

b)

suffused

c)

quavered

d)

parried

6.

make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil

a)

cadence

b)

tyranny

c)

retaliate

d)

manifested

7.

What word means fanciful, impractical, unrealistic; dominated by idealism

a)

romantic

b)

ruinous

c)

rebut

d)

phosphorescent

8.

What word means knowing something instinctively

a)

contempt

b)

suffused

c)

manifested

d)

intuitively

9.

What word means a large number of items in with no order

a)

insidious

b)

welter

c)

parried

d)

contempt

10.

What word means below what can be heard

a)

rebut

b)

subaudible

c)

phosphorescent

d)

suffused

11.

What word means bringing ruin or downfall; disastrous?

a)

cadence

b)

retaliate

c)

manifested

d)

ruinous

12.

What word means to tremble or speak in a trembling voice

a)

quavered

b)

parried

c)

romantic

d)

contempt

13.

What word means show; revealed?

a)

subaudiable

b)

manifested

c)

beatific

d)

tyranny

14.

What word means deflected or warded off; avoided?

a)

rebut

b)

retaliate

c)

welter

d)

parried

15.

What word means to offer arguments or evidence that contradicts an assertion; to refute?

a)

parried

b)

intuitively

c)

rebut

d)

beatific

16.

What word means giving off light without heat?

a)

welter

b)

phosphorescent

c)

perfunctory

d)

insidious