Fahrenheit 451Vocabulary Unit 1

Phoenix

a legendary Arabian bird said to set fire to itself and rise anew from the ashes every

500 years

pedestrian

Commonplace or dull

Refract The turning or bending of any wave

A loss in the transparency of the lens of the eye

Cataract

resembling a hair; slender

Capillary

Olfactorypertaining to the sense of smell

Proboscis

A long, flexible snout or trunk, as of an

elephant

the study of the flight dynamics of projectiles

Ballistics

natural or habitual inclination or tendency

Proclivities

deserving or causing hatred

odious

a bottomless pit

Abyss

Sievea device for separating lumps

rotating machines that separate

Centrifuge

Feign

to make believe; pretend

to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.

Suffused