Fahrenheit 451 Vocabulary

calm, dependable, and showing little emotion

• stolid

• imperceptible

• ruinous

• proclivities

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

to make light change directions

• refract

• quaver

• manifest

• rebut

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

in a way that so so slight, gradual, or subtle as not to be noticed

• imperceptibly

• ruinously

• incessantly

• perfunctorily

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a feeling of pensive sadness, sometimes with no obvious cause

• melancholy

• ruinous

• accord

• heresy

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

things a person has a tendency to choose or do regularly

• proclivities

• accords

• pedants

• sieves

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

the expression of very strong disapproval; a sentence to punishment

• condemnation

• insidious

• tyranny

• heresy

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

the feeling that a person is worthless or unworthy of respect

• contempt

• melancholy

• grotesque

• beatific

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

beliefs or opinions contrary to dominant religious teachings

• heresy

• tyranny

• accord

• quarry

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a person who has a responsibility to look after something

• custodian

• sieve

• phantom

• pyre

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RL.8.4

known directly or instinctively without conscious thought

• intuitively

• perfunctorily

• imperceptibly

• ruinously

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RL.8.4