English I (Pre-AP): Fahrenheit 451 Vocabulary Set #2

Write the definition of each vocabulary word in the space following the part of speech. Make sure the definition you choose matches the way the vocabulary word is used in the sentence from the text, below.

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• Bewildered (adj.):
• Cite (v.):
• Disperse/-ing (v.):
• Draught (n.):
• Filigree (adj.):
• Fold (n.):
• Hone/-d (v.):
• Latrine (n.):
• Murmur (n.):
• Mush (n.):
• Needle/-ing (v.):

They sat, not touching her, bewildered with her display. (100)

“I’ve always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that mush!” (101)

…she had started on her own slow process of dispersing the dynamite in her house, stick by stick. (102)

It was good listening to the beetle hum, the sleepy mosquito buzz and delicate filigree murmur of the old man’s voice…. (103)

By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. (104)

Montag had to rice from the game and go to the latrine to wash his hands. (105)

“The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold.” (105)

“There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain.…” (106)

“Stop blushing. I’m not needling, really I’m not.” (106)

“‘The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.’” (106)

When you are confident you have the correct definitions, see me and you can complete the post-project quiz.