F451 Part Three Vocabulary Practice

Match the following:

• deprivation of companionship; lonliness

• bombardments

• built; raised

• desolation

• extinguished; immersed in liquid

• doused

• assaults; attacks

• convolutions

• curves, twists, or intricacies

• erected

Match the following:

• consisting of or reduced to fragments

• fragmentary

• misshapen, especially in a strange way

• incessantly

• continuing without interruption

• grotesque

• a disease of the joints; large blob

• gout

• with great care of caution

• gingerly

Match the following:

• a crushing force that is relentless

• liquefaction

• the process of liquefying

• juggernaut

• to accuse of or present proof of a crime

• incriminate

• sleeplessness

• incomprehensible

• impossible to understand or comprehend

• insomnia

Match the following:

• emitting light

• penance

• a ghost; unreal

• luminous

• people concerned with rules and details

• pedants

• a wide waterway acting as a barrier

• phantom

• self-punishment for committing a sin

• moat

Match the following:

• groups moving along or forward

• plume

• talked in a foolish or simple-minded way

• pyre

• a local anesthetic

• procaine

• a feather; a rising column of smoke

• prattled

• a pile of burning materials

• processions

Match the following:

• fails to take advantage of

• seance

• a meeting, usually to speak to the dead

• scythe

• the motion of an object bouncing off

• ricocheted

• a tool for mowing or reaping

• squanders

• a slow-moving mammal; laziness

• sloth