F451 Pt.2-3 Vocab Review

There was a crash like the falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass. Montag drifted about as if still another _____ storm had turned him.

• rigidity

• incomprehensible

• perpetual

• gobbledegook

• piecework

Two dozen of them flurried, wavering, indecisive, three miles off, like butterflies puzzled by autumn, and then they were _____ down to land, one by one, here.

• excursions

• margin

• plummeting

• attendants

• gauge

Perhaps the great broadcasting stations with their beams of color and light and talk and chatter went first into ____________.

• status quo

• phantom

• oblivion

• incessantly

Granger arose, felt of his arms and legs, swearing ___________ under his breath, tears dripping from his face.

• incessantly

• phantom

• oblivion

• quarry

An unchanging state or the way things are expected to be is the _______________.

• incessantly

• quarry

• phantom

• status quo

Never since its first use in tracking _______ has this incredible invention made a mistake.

• phantom

• oblivion

• quarry

• incessantly

He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the ___________ exhalations and odors of a running man.

• phantom

• oblivion

• quarry

• incessantly

Montag __________, got a grip on the books, and forced himself not to freeze.

• convolutions

• scapegoat

• plummeting

• faltered

If you lifted my skull, by God, in the _____________ of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint.

• convolutions

• scapegoat

• plummeting

• faltered

So they're sniffing for a ____________ to pin things on and end the search with a bang. Watch.

• convolutions

• scapegoat

• plummeting

• faltered