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accompaniment

A minute later, Three White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other's limbs to the __________ of immense incoming tides of laughter.

beatific

“And you got in and we drove back to the firehouse in _______ silence, all -dwindled away to peace."

Caesarian

I’ve had two children by ________ section.

chap

“The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average ____ will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.”

clenched

Montag stood fixing his raw eyes to the cold bright rail under his _______ fingers.

contemptible

See how safe I play it, how _________ I am?

delinquents

Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile _______.

Discourse

…I speak them all. A kind of excellent dumb ______, Willie!

dispersing

Some were missing and he knew that she had started on her own slow process of ______ the dynamite in her house, stick by stick.

encloses

But who has ever torn himself from the claw that _______ you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour?

filigree

…the sleepy mosquito buzz and delicate ______ murmur of the old man’s voice at first scolding him and then consoling him in the late hour of night…

hem

…him waiting for Mrs. Phelps to stop straightening her dress ____ and Mrs. Bowles to take her fingers away from her hair.

homely

He wasn’t much, was he? Kind of small and ____ and he didn’t shave too close or comb his hair very well.

intoxicate

There shallow draughts _______ the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

invigorated

I must admit that your blind raging ______ me. God, how young I felt!

latrine

Twice in half an hour, Montag had to rise from the game and go to the ______ to wash his hands.

leisure

“______“ “Oh, but we’ve plenty of off-hours.“

manifested

For these were the hands that had acted on their own, no part of him, here was where the conscience first ________ itself to snatch books…

mobilized

"We have ________ a million men. Quick victory is ours if the war comes .. .."

oracle

'The ______ of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us, Mr. Valery once said.'"

perfunctorily

He glanced _________ at it, and shoved it in his pocket.

porcelain

…concerned by the meaning of the colourful men and women with the _______ eyes and the blood-ruby lips.

pries

If you need help when Beatty ____ at you, I’ll be sitting right here in your eardrum making notes!

profusion

You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite ______.

quavery

Mildred had already anticipated this in a ______ voice.

retain

They say you _____ knowledge even when you’re sleeping, if someone whispers it in your ear.

tyranny

Oh, God, the terrible ______ of the majority.

vantage

They leaped into the air and clutched the brass pole as if it were the last _____ point above a tidal wave passing below….

warded

Montag ________ him off and let his hands continue.

welter

…where stood a table upon which a number of metal tools lay among a ____ of microscopic wire-hairs…