Fahrenheit 451: Part 1 Vocab

Stolid

Showing little emotion or expressing little feeling (of a person).

Refracted

To change the direction of light, sound, heat, or other energy as it travels across or through something.

Imperceptibly

Something is happening so slightly that it's barely noticeable.

Pulverized

Defeat utterly/ reduce to fine particles.

Melancholy

A feeling of pensive sadness, typically found with no obvious cause.

Capillary

Relating to or resembling a hair, fine and slender.

Multifaceted

Having many aspects or sides.

Ballistics

The science of the motion of projectiles (including bullets and missiles) in flight.

Erected

Set up or established.

Proclivities

A natural tendency to behave in a particular way.