Acosta F451 Vocab List 1

The practice of officially examining books, movies, etc; and suppressing unacceptable parts.

Censorship

A machine that uses force to separate substances or parts of substances.

Centrifuge

A statement or well-known remark that expresses an important idea or rule.

Dictum

Pretending to feel or be affected by.

Feigning

A strong feeling of excitement and enthusiasm.

Fervor

A belief or opinion that does not agree with the official belief or opinion of a particular religion.

Heresy

Exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess.

Hysterical

Not perceptible by a sense or by the mind; impossible to see or notice.

Imperceptibly

Becoming angry or annoying easily.

Irritable

Emitting light.

Luminescent

A sad mood or feeling.

Melancholy

Having many different parts.

Multifaceted

Legally or morally bound to do something.

Obligated

Causing hatred or strong dislike.

Odious

Not usual or normal.

Peculiar

Tendency to do or like something that is usually bad.

Proclivities

To argue or complain about small, unimportant things.

Quibble

Altered or distorted.

Refracted

Showing little or no emotion.

Stolid

To move or go lightly.

Waft