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 cards

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