Fahrenheit 451 Vocabulary Chart #3: Burning Bright

beatific

blessedly happy

convolution

a coiled shape or part; a mass or winding

desolation

the results of ruin or devastaing event; a feeling of loneliness

metropolis

a major city

incessantly

continuing or repeating without stopping, often in a way that feels annoying or endless

incriminate

to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault

oblivion

the state of being forgotten or destroyed

pedant

someone who overemphasizes or shows off his or her learning; someone who focuses unduly on minutiae

ricocheted

bounced from one or more surfaces

scapegoat

someone forced to take the blame for a crime

beat

happy, blessed, made holy

ific

making or doing

con

together, with

volut

to roll

ion

an action, state, or result of an action

de

completely

sol(a)

alone, lonely

(t)ion

an action, state, or result of an action

metro

mother

polis

city or city-state

in

not

cess

to cease, stop, or go slowly

ant

doing the action

ly

turns an adjective into an adverb

in

in, into, to cause to be

crimin

crime, charge, accusation

ate

apply, perform, cause the action of

obliv

to forget

ion

action, process, resulting state or condition

pedant

schoolmaster, teacher

richochet

to skip

ed

past tense

scape

escape

goat

a horned animal