F451 Part Two Vocabulary Practice

Match the following:

• great pain or anguish

• cadenced

• blissful; heavenly

• consoling

• dropped in pitch or tone of voice

• beatific

• seed covering; strips of metal

• chaff

• providing comfort in time of need

• agony

Match the following:

• lack of courage

• cowardice

• serious speech or piece of writing

• discourse

• deserving to be treated with hatred

• diverted

• changed something's route or path

• dispersing

• scattering; disappearing

• conemptible

Match the following:

• domesticated furry animals

• filigree

• given a glassy covering; coating

• dune

• a hill of sand

• ferrets

• reduced in number or amount

• enameled

• delicate decorative design from metal

• dwindled

Match the following:

• uncontrollable grief or laughter

• hysterical

• substance that gives a pleasant smell

• gibbering

• improved to a state of excellence

• incense

• a small biting fly

• honed

• talking or making sounds unintelligibly

• gnat

Match the following:

• average; adequate; but not very good

• intuitively

• a toilet

• mediocre

• filled with energy or vitality

• inisidious

• knowing something instinctively

• invigorated

• slowly and subtly harmful & destructive

• latrine

Match the following:

• a large, uncultivated stretch of land

• perfunctorily

• blocked or dodged the effect of a weapon

• parried

• continuing to emit light; glowing

• probing

• done as a matter of duty or custom

• phosporescent

• conducting a thorough search

• moor

Match the following:

• to be full of; overflowing

• teem

• to deny the truth of something

• rebut

• an abundance; a large amount

• profusion

• spread over/through something w/ light

• strewn

• thrown about carelessly

• suffused