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Here are the definitions and text evidence for your vocabulary words from Fahrenheit 451:

Part II - The Sieve and the Sand

1. Aesthetic – Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.

• Text Evidence: Not found in the searched text.

2. Litterateur – A person who is knowledgeable about literature.

• Text Evidence: Not found in the searched text.

3. Avalanche – A sudden overwhelming quantity of something.

• Text Evidence: “A door where a window should be, a top for a bottom, a side for a back, and then the city rolled over and fell down dead.”

4. Metropolis – A large, busy city.

• Text Evidence: Not found in the searched text.

5. Convolution – A complex or intricate shape.

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6. Oblivion – The state of being unaware or unconscious.

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7. Desolation – A state of emptiness or destruction.

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8. Pedant – A person excessively concerned with minor details or rules.

• Text Evidence: Not found in the searched text.

9. Falter – To lose strength or momentum.

• Text Evidence: “Montag faltered, got a grip on the books, and forced himself not to freeze.”

10. Plummet – To fall or drop straight down.

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11. Guild – An association of people with a common pursuit.

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12. Quarry – A thing or person that is chased or sought.

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13. Illumine – To light up.

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14. Ricocheted – To rebound off a surface.

• Text Evidence: “Behind him now twenty million silently baying Hounds, ricocheted across parlors, three-cushion shooting from right wall to center wall to left wall.”

15. Limned – Depicted or described in painting or words.

• Text Evidence: Not found in the searched text.

16. Scapegoat – A person who is blamed for the faults of others.

• Text Evidence: “They’re sniffing for a scapegoat to end things with a bang.”

17. Liquefaction – The process of becoming liquid.

• Text Evidence: Not found in the searched text.

18. Scythe – A tool with a curved blade used for cutting crops.

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Part II - The Sieve and the Sand (Continued)

19. Beatific – Blissfully happy.

• Text Evidence: “And at the very end of my dream, along I came with the Salamander and said, ‘Going my way?’ And you got in and we drove back to the firehouse in beatific silence.”

20. Morgue – A place where dead bodies are kept.

• Text Evidence: “What about Clarisse McClellan, where do we look for her? The morgue!”

21. Cadence – A rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words.

• Text Evidence: “His name was Faber, and when he finally lost his fear of Montag, he talked in a cadenced voice, looking at the sky and the trees and the green park.”

22. Oracle – A source of wise counsel or prophecy.

• Text Evidence: “The folly 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.”

23. Certitude – Absolute certainty.

• Text Evidence: “Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.”

24. Patronage – The support given by a patron.

• Text Evidence: “The last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage.”

25. Chaos – Complete disorder.

• Text Evidence: “‘Stick with the firemen, Montag. All else is dreary chaos!’”

26. Perfunctorily – Done with minimal effort or reflection.

• Text Evidence: “He glanced perfunctorily at it, and shoved it in his pocket.”

27. Dentifrice – A substance used for cleaning teeth.

• Text Evidence: “There was no Denham’s Dentifrice anywhere.”

28. Phosphorescent – Emitting light without heat.

• Text Evidence: “He was a phosphorescent target; he knew it, he felt it.”

29. Discourse – Written or spoken communication.

• Text Evidence: “A kind of excellent dumb discourse, Willie!”

30. Profusion – An abundance of something.

• Text Evidence: “You’d find life under the glass, streaming past infinite profusion.”

31. Exhalation – The process of breathing out.

• Text Evidence: “Under the doorsill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.”

32. Quaver – To shake or tremble in speaking.

• Text Evidence: Not found in the searched text.

33. Filigree – Delicate ornamental work.

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34. Rebut – To argue against.

• Text Evidence: “Using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point!”

35. Insidious – Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way with harmful effects.

• Text Evidence: Not found in the searched text.

36. Strew – To scatter or spread.

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37. Intuitively – Based on instinct rather than reasoning.

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38. Skepticism – Doubt or disbelief.

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39. Invigorate – To give energy to.

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40. Suffuse – To spread through or over.

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41. Linguist – A person skilled in languages.

• Text Evidence: Not found in the searched text.

42. Teem – To be full of or swarming with.

• Text Evidence: “The parlor that was dead and gray as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life.”

43. Manifest – Clear or obvious.

• Text Evidence: Not found in the searched text.

44. Trifle – A small amount or unimportant thing.

• Text Evidence: Not found in the searched text.

45. Verbiage – Excessively wordy speech or writing.

• Text Evidence: “A torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths.”

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