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F451 Pt.2-3 Vocab Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

There was a crash like the falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass. Montag drifted about as if still another _____ storm had turned him.

a)

rigidity

b)

incomprehensible

c)

perpetual

d)

gobbledegook

e)

piecework

2.

Two dozen of them flurried, wavering, indecisive, three miles off, like butterflies puzzled by autumn, and then they were _____ down to land, one by one, here.

a)

excursions

b)

margin

c)

plummeting

d)

attendants

e)

gauge

3.

Perhaps the great broadcasting stations with their beams of color and light and talk and chatter went first into ____________.

a)

status quo

b)

phantom

c)

oblivion

d)

incessantly

4.

Granger arose, felt of his arms and legs, swearing ___________ under his breath, tears dripping from his face.

a)

incessantly

b)

phantom

c)

oblivion

d)

quarry

5.

An unchanging state or the way things are expected to be is the _______________.

a)

incessantly

b)

quarry

c)

phantom

d)

status quo

6.

Never since its first use in tracking _______ has this incredible invention made a mistake.

a)

phantom

b)

oblivion

c)

quarry

d)

incessantly

7.

He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the ___________ exhalations and odors of a running man.

a)

phantom

b)

oblivion

c)

quarry

d)

incessantly

8.

Montag __________, got a grip on the books, and forced himself not to freeze.

a)

convolutions

b)

scapegoat

c)

plummeting

d)

faltered

9.

If you lifted my skull, by God, in the _____________ of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint.

a)

convolutions

b)

scapegoat

c)

plummeting

d)

faltered

10.

So they're sniffing for a ____________ to pin things on and end the search with a bang. Watch.

a)

convolutions

b)

scapegoat

c)

plummeting

d)

faltered

11.

A synonym for aesthetic is...

a)

plain

b)

beautiful

c)

hideous

d)

indistinguishable

12.

The opposite of ruinous is...

a)

damaging

b)

hurtful

c)

disastrous

d)

wholesome

13.

carried out with minimum effort or reflection

a)

limn

b)

perfunctory

c)

scapegoat

d)

convolution

14.

to claim or prove that something is false; disprove

a)

ruinous

b)

perfunctory

c)

rebut

d)

limn

15.

a synonym for phosphorescent is...

a)

cloudy

b)

sparkling

c)

murky

d)

dusky

16.

an antonym for limn is...

a)

sketch

b)

draw

c)

conceal

d)

depict

17.

A scythe has a blade shaped like a...

a)

spear

b)

spoon

c)

sickle

d)

rectangle