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Abstract

And most of the time in the cafes they have the jokeboxes on and the same jokes most of the time, or the musical wall lit and all the coloured patterns running up and down, but it's only colour and all ______.

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2

Abyss

He held his pants out into an _____ and let them fall into darkness.

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3

Aggravating

“Yes, I have. God knows why. You’re peculiar, you’re ______, yet you’re easy to forgive.“

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4

Antisocial

“I’m ______, they say. I don’t mix.“

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5

Ballistics

“It’s like a lesson in ______. It has a trajectory we decide for it.“

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Cacophony

You drowned in music and pure ______…

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7

Centrifuge

When it was all over he felt like a man who had been thrown from a cliff, whirled in a _____ and spat out…

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8

Cogs

…a scraping of metal, a turning of ___ that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion.

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Conjure

He tried to _____ up a face to fit the words, but there was no face.

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10

Conscience

His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a _____ and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief…

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11

Dandelions

“I guess it’s the last of the _____ this year.“

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12

Erected

…all the sounds came to Montag, behind his closed eyes, behind the barrier he had momentarily _____.

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13

Exotic

“If we had a fourth wall, why it’d be just like this room wasn’t ours at all, but all kinds of ____ people’s rooms.“

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14

Faceted

Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, its multi-______ eyes at peace.

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15

Fathoms

…her eyes wide and staring at the _____ of blackness above her in the ceiling.

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16

Fervor

In all the rush and _____, Montag had only an instant to read a line…

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17

Flurry

The cards fell in a ____ of snow.

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18

Gibbering

…the nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the ______ pack of tree-apes that said nothing…

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19

Grille

He stood looking up at the ventilator ___ in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the _____…

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20

Illuminated

…gently vibrating, softly _____ kennel back ina dark corner of the firehouse.

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21

Incinerator

The pawn was then tossed in the ______.

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22

Odious

Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up the sidewalk, suddenly _____ and fat in the plump fireproof slickers

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23

Pantomime


He could only ______, hoping she would turn his way and see him

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24

Proclivities

Were all firemen picked then for their looks as well as their ______?

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25

Psychiatrist

“I've got to go to see my _______ now.”

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26

Quivered

…sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that ______ gently…

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27

Ravenous

His hands were _______. And his eyes were beginning to feel hunger…

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28

Spectacle

More ______, a better show?

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29

Stagnant

…the electronic-eyed snake winding down into the layer upon layer of night and stone and _____ spring water….

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30

Whoops

…listening to ____ of laughter below…

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